Ubuntu 7.04

From Kolab wiki

These are the steps I took to compile Kolab-2.1 on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). Warning: I did not succeed yet, but the described steps are necessary anyway.

1)

 # sudo apt-get install bison flex make automake build-essential g++

2) Follow the instructions on Kolab2_Installation_-_Source To call obmtool, use:

chmod +x obmtool 
./obmtool kolab 2>&1 | tee kolab-build.log

This will fail after a few minutes (installation of gcc fails). The reason is 'ld' that doesn't know the option '--hash-style=both'

3) Apply the following workaround

The trick is to replace ld by a python script that filter the unknown option and then start the original ld

mv /kolab/bin/ld /kolab/bin/ld.orig
cat > /kolab/bin/ld <<EOF
#!/usr/bin/python

import sys, os

args=[]

for arg in sys.argv:
   if arg!='--hash-style=both':
       args.append(arg)

os.execv('/kolab/bin/ld.orig', args)
EOF
chmod a+x /kolab/bin/ld

4) Execute obmtool again:

./obmtool kolab 2>&1 | tee kolab-build.log

-> perl fails to install because of this error (from kolab-install.log)

 make[1]: Leaving directory `/kolab/RPM/TMP/perl-5.8.7'
 ./makedepend: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

This is a known problem with ubuntu - they use dash as /bin/sh.

 mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.orig
 ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh