Nixpkgs: Packaging request / Help building: evolution-ews

[sgillespie]

Project description
Microsoft Exchange server support for Evolution

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution
• source URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-ews.git
• license: lgpl
• platforms: linux

I've begun the process here: https://github.com/sgillespie/nixpkgs/commit/05c592e84e9a8ebe5376569e41b1e59590a70673. Unfortunately this doesn't build because it's trying to update evolution-data-server, and I'm not smart enough to get past it.

-- Installing: /nix/store/r1jiqcmdjmzai3zm8hkvw8xsmx8jl32a-evolution-data-server-3.32.4/lib/evolution-data-server/addressbook-backends/libebookbackendews.so
CMake Error at src/addressbook/cmake_install.cmake:55 (file):
  file INSTALL cannot copy file
  "/build/evolution-ews-3.32.2/build/src/addressbook/libebookbackendews.so"
  to
  "/nix/store/r1jiqcmdjmzai3zm8hkvw8xsmx8jl32a-evolution-data-server-3.32.4/lib/evolution-data-server/addressbook-backends/libebookbackendews.so".
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/cmake_install.cmake:42 (include)
  cmake_install.cmake:55 (include)


FAILED: CMakeFiles/install.util
cd /build/evolution-ews-3.32.2/build && /nix/store/rlp98mmbvp008720p25k73w2khzs9rzn-cmake-3.14.5/bin/cmake -P cmake_install.cmake
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
builder for '/nix/store/dhnhdfbhvzqzwpfiw62nyizsp77ab224-evolution-ews-3.32.2.drv' failed with exit code 1
error: build of '/nix/store/dhnhdfbhvzqzwpfiw62nyizsp77ab224-evolution-ews-3.32.2.drv' failed

[bjornfor]

Cross reference: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/12847.

[jtojnar]

It uses pkg-config to find the directory. Unfortunately CMake does not support proper variable handling, so you will need to override the variable manually using environment variable.

For example, if you see

pkg_check_variable(ebook_backenddir libedata-book-1.2 backenddir)

you can set the override environment variable as suggested in pkg-config(1) section ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:

PKG_CONFIG_LIBEDATA_BOOK_1_2_BACKENDDIR = "${placeholder "out"}/lib/evolution-data-server/addressbook-backends";

[jtojnar]

Also note that you will probably need to create a non-trivial patch for evolution-data-server for it to be able to find it. I can probably take a jab at it after we update GNOME to 3.34.

[aanderse]

@jtojnar any chance you have capacity to look at this now that 3.34 is in unstable?

[jtojnar]

Moving it up in my GNOME to-do list just below dconf database module but I will not be able to get to it until February.

[aanderse]

Great, thanks!

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[fabianhauser]

This is still valid and important to me. Current state as far as I see: @jtojnar planned to take a look at patching the evolution-data-server.

[jtojnar]

This is being handled in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/91504 and #92775