Re: building 2.3.28

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2009.11.07 15:15, MK wrote:
> ...
> So I would much prefer to build from source, which is what I do with  
> a lot of software (I am a C programmer, I have some gtk projects and  
> my desktop at home is source built from gtk on up, so using packages  
> is sometimes awkward or undesirable).  I believe I tried to build  
> balsa once or twice in the past and failed and just left it at that,  
> but I would really, really like it to work out since I cannot find  
> ANY other viable GUI email clients for linux.  The latest attempt was:

> configure --enable-pcre --disable-static --without-gnome --with-gnu-ld
> --with-gtkspell
>
> and it crapped out here:
>
> address-view.c: In function ‘lbav_entry_setup_matches’:
> address-view.c:230: error: ‘internet_address_unref’ undeclared (first
> use in this function)
> address-view.c:230: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported  
> only
> once
> address-view.c:230: error: for each function it appears in.)
>
> I don't really want to debug this myself and was wondering if anyone
> had any advice or (egad) had actually gotten 2.3.28 to build!

2.3.28 is not the latest version.  I'm using 2.4.1 under Gentoo, so it  
was compiled on my machine with no problems, although not manually.  It  
might be worth trying a newer version.