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The main goal is to support gzipped output for future internal calls (e.g. from notmuch-new) to notmuch_database_dump. The additional dependency is not very heavy since xapian already pulls in zlib. We want the dump to be "atomic", in the sense that after running the dump file is either present and complete, or not present. This avoids certain classes of mishaps involving overwriting a good backup with a bad or partial one.
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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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In fact, if you don't plan to pass any arguments to the configure
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script, then you can skip that step and just start with "make", (which
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will call configure for you). See this command:
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./configure --help
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for detailed documentation of the things you can control at the
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configure stage.
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Dependencies
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Notmuch depends on four libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6,
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Talloc, and zlib which are each described below:
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Xapian
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------
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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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Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or
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Xapian 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether
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1.0 or 1.1) had a performance bug that made notmuch very slow
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when modifying tags. This would cause distracting pauses when
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reading mail while notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing
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the "inbox" and "unread" tags from messages in a thread.
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GMime 2.4 or 2.6
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----------------
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GMime 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 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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zlib
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----
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zlib is an extremely popular compression library. It is used
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by Xapian, so if you installed that you will already have
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zlib. You may need to install the zlib headers separately.
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Notmuch needs the transparent write feature of zlib introduced
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in version 1.2.5.2 (Dec. 2011).
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zlib is available from http://zlib.net
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Building Documentation
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----------------------
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By default the documentation for notmuch is built using sphinx.
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Sphinx is available from www.sphinx-doc.org.
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If you prefer, you can build the man pages using rst2man, from the
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python docutils package. See doc/INSTALL for details.
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Installing Dependencies from Packages
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On a modern, package-based operating system you can install all of the
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dependencies with a simple simple command line. For example:
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For Debian and similar:
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sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-2.6-dev libtalloc-dev zlib1g-dev python-sphinx
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For Fedora and similar:
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sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel zlib-devel python-sphinx
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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.
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