Re: Claws Mail missing libetpan

[Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>]

Je  2 jan 20:52 skribis Efraim:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 12:29:47PM -0500, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> > Le 2 janvier 2020 12:14:50 GMT-05:00, Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> a écrit :  
> > >Hello—
> > >
> > >I get an error compiling Claws Mail (claws-mail):
> > >
> > >checking for libetpan-config... no
> > >*** Claws Mail requires libetpan 0.57 or newer. See
> > >http://www.etpan.org/ 
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >First installing libetpan (the Guix package) does not help.
> > >
> > >—Marco  
> > 
> > There's no reason it should help: builds are completely isolated
> > from the host environment. There is nothing you can do to influence
> > them.

But that means builds may be reproducible!

> > [...]
> 
> I recently upgraded libetpan from 1.9.3 to 1.9.4, and with it we lost
> the libetpan-config binary. There's an open bug¹ with libetpan
> upstream to mention the now missing binary. There's also an upstream
> patch² but I'm having a hard time getting it to work.

On a different Guix (System) system I already had Claws Mail 3.17.4
running.  After 'guix pull' it grabbed libetpan-1.9.4 and wanted to
compile Claws Mail anew.  Indeed, same compilation error.

—Marco