Regarding notmuch and Fedora 16

[Karel Zak]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 02:31:39PM +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:36:59 +0000, Darren McGuicken <mailing-notmuch at fernseed.info> wrote:
> > On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:09:39 -0500, Peter Portante <peter.a.portante at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am interested in using notmuch from within emacs, but have not been 
> > > able to get the latest version of notmuch (0.10.2) to compile under 
> > > Fedora 16.
> > 
> > Looks like we have a growing Fedora community, yay! :-)
> > 
> > And it's nothing you're doing wrong, per my reply to the other thread
> > F16 is using the current development version of gmime which has API
> > differences with the stable version 2.4.  The patch that exists isn't
> > part of standard notmuch since it in turn breaks 2.4 compatibility.
> > 
> > What's the right way to handle this?  I see 2.6 tarballs on gnome... is
> > 2.6 officially out there and stable?
> 
> Some conditional compilation by #if(def)ing some *GMIME* macro...
> 
> While doing something else I passed by these messages:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/notmuch@notmuchmail.org/msg05829.html
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=269819
> 
> These seems to provide valuable information to anyone attempting
> to compile notmuch with gmime 2.5+

It seems that we have officially notmuch 0.11 in Fedora 17/rawhide, if
you have the latest stable Fedora 16, then you can use:

  yum --enablerepo=rawhide install notmuch notmuch-devel

to get:

 $ rpm -q notmuch gmime
 notmuch-0.11-1.fc17.x86_64
 gmime-2.5.8-1.fc16.x86_64


    Karel

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