On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:45 -0400, Thomas Dean wrote: > I am a security researcher at Queen's University in Canada. > We are working on a model based intelligent fuzzer for text > based protocols and data files. One of the file formats > we were looking at was iCalendar file format. We are trying > to build an earlier version of Evolution (2.6.0) that had several > bugs. However wee have run into a few problems. > > We installed ubuntu 6.06 on a machine (Evolution 2.6.1) and > downloaded Evolution client 2.6.0 source code. The idea was > to compile only the 2.6.0 client (with the bug) and use > the rest of the installed system. > > As confiuration: > 1) we set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to "/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/home/benkam/ > evolution/lib/pkgconfig" > > 2) we added /home/benkam/evolution/lib/bonobo/servers to /etc/bonobo- > activation > > 3) used ./configure --prefix=/home/benkam/evolution > > make followed by make install seems to produce a complete working > install of the > Evolution 2.6.0 client in the /home/benkam/evolution directory. The > about reports > 2.6.0. However the bugs did not seem to be reproducable. We inserted > some > tracing calls into several key files that are compiled into the > evolution libraries. > After rebuilding and reinstalling, the trace output did not appear, > leading us > to believe that the 2.6.1 libraries are being called from the globally > installed > application. > > Could anyone give any pointers to what we we did wrong, and how we can > get > a local 2.6.0 copy running? > > Many thanks... > > Tom. > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
How are you starting your evo instance? Any calls to invoke evo need to be done with the calling environment set such that your --prefix location is utilized first. _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
