2009-11-02 18:25:04 +01:00
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Build and install instructions for Notmuch.
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Compilation commands
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The process for compiling and installing Notmuch is the very standard
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sequence of:
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./configure
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make
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sudo make install
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You can even skip the configure step if all of the dependencies of
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Notmuch are satisfied. If they are not, the configure script will
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notice that and provide instructions on where to obtain the necessary
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dependencies.
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Dependencies
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Notmuch depends on three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4, and Talloc
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which are each described below:
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Xapian
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Xapian is the search-engine library underlying Notmuch.
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It provides all the real machinery of indexing and searching,
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(including the very nice parsing of the query string).
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Xapian is available from http://xapian.org
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2009-11-21 19:52:06 +01:00
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After installing Xapian, please ensure that you have a command
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named "xapian-config" on your $PATH as notmuch expects. (At
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least one notmuch user found that Xapian installed the config
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program to /usr/local/bin/xapian-config-1.1 ).
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2009-11-02 18:25:04 +01:00
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GMime 2.4
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GMime 2.4 provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.
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Without GMime, Notmuch would not be able to extract and index
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the actual text from email message encoded as BASE64, etc.
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GMime 2.4 is available from http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
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Talloc
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Talloc is a memory-pool allocator used by Notmuch.
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Talloc is an extremely lightweight and easy-to-use tool for
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allocating memory in a hierarchical fashion and then freeing
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it with a single call of the top-level handle. Using it has
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made development of Notmuch much easier and much less prone to
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memory leaks.
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Talloc is available from http://talloc.samba.org/
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On a modern, package-based operating system such as Debian, you can
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install all of the dependencies with the following simple command
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line:
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sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.4-dev libtalloc-dev
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On other systems, a similar command can be used, but the details of
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the package names may be different, (such as "devel" in place of
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"dev").
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