notmuch-0.18 issues [was Re: notmuch-0.16: realpath() compatibility issue; clang visibility problem]

[Tomi Ollila]

On Thu, Jun 26 2014, Thomas Klausner <tk at giga.or.at> wrote:

>
> I had some other issues with 0.18 though.
>
> 1. pkgsrc's copy of rst2man is called "rst2man.py". The configure test
> for this fails, of course, and there is another place where rst2man is
> called directly. I've changed that to rst2man.py locally, but it'd be
> good if configure could test for both names, set a variable to the one
> found, and use the variable in the other place.

There are patches to be reviewed for this.

>
> 2. doc/Makefile.local has "python" hardcoded. pkgsrc supports multiple
> python versions at the same time, with the disadvantage that there is
> no "python" executable, only "python2.6", "python2.7", "python3.3"
> etc. I've passed in the proper executable name as PYTHONBIN and used
> it in the Makefile.

For this we could figure out something...

>
> 3. installation of notmuch-version.el fails, because the install rule
> has no dependency on the generated file notmuch-version.el. I've added
> such a dependency.

This has been fixed in 0.18.1.

>
> The patches I used to make notmuch build are attached, but I can of
> course test other patches if you prefer different solutions. I haven't
> really run this version of notmuch yet.
>
> Cheers,
>  Thomas
> $NetBSD$
>

Tomi