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GMime 3.0 is over 2 years old now, and 2.6 has been deprecated in notmuch for about 1.5 years. Comments and documentation no longer need to refer to GMime 2.6, so clean them all up. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
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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 3.0,
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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 https://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
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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 https://github.com/jstedfast/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 https://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 https://zlib.net
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Building Documentation
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----------------------
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To build the documentation for notmuch you need at least version 1.0
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of sphinx (Jul. 2010).
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Sphinx is available from www.sphinx-doc.org.
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To install the documentation as "info" pages, you will need the
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additional tools makeinfo and install-info.
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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 single simple command line. For example:
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For Debian and similar:
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sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libgmime-3.0-dev libtalloc-dev zlib1g-dev python3-sphinx texinfo install-info
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For Fedora and similar:
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sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel zlib-devel python3-sphinx texinfo info
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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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