It's not usually a good idea to relocate binary packages (especially
those that contain data files, since the paths to those files are often
generated at compile time).
What happens when you run "evolution-exchange-storage" from a terminal
window. If it doesn't start up properly then something is wrong with
the connector.. If it starts up it's an OAF problem.
Chris
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 09:48, Jeff Boerio wrote:
> Has anyone successfully built v1.2 of Evolution for a location other
> than /usr/bin? Have you been able to plug in Connector to it?
>
> I've been pretty unsuccessful in doing so. I have a "wrapper" for
> launching evolution and it looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> EVO=/usr/local/evolution/1.2.0
> GNOME=/usr/local/gnome/1.4.0
> PATH=${GNOME}/bin:${EVO}/bin:${PATH}
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${GNOME}/lib:${EVO}/lib
> OAF_INFO_PATH=${GNOME}/share/oaf:${EVO}/share/oaf
>
> export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH OAF_INFO_PATH
>
> ${EVO}/bin/evolution.bin ${@+"$@"}
> ## End
>
> In order to "plug in" the Connector RPM, I used rpm2cpio piped to cpio
> and installed it in $EVO.
>
> Whenever I would launch evolution, I would get the following dialog box:
>
> "Cannot activate component
> OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_ExchangeStorage_ShellComponent: The error from
> the activation system is: Child process did not give an error message,
> unknown failure occurred. [OK]"
>
> I broke down and tried to install Connector into /usr, modified my
> wrapper script so that /usr/lib and /usr/share/oaf were included in the
> respective variables, but I still get the error message.
>
> So, has anyone done this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jeff
>
>
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