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This is the output from sphinx-quickstart, massaged a bit, along with our existing man pages converted to rst. A skeleton notmuch-emacs manual is also included. It is not suitable for end user use yet.
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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 three libraries: Xapian, GMime 2.4 or 2.6, and
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Talloc 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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------
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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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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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-------------------------------------
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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 python-sphinx
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For Fedora and similar:
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sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-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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