problems building local version of Evolution

[Thomas Dean]

I am a security researcher at Queen's University in Canada.
We are working on a model based intelligent fuzzer for text
based protocols and data files. One of the file formats
we were looking at was iCalendar file format. We are trying
to build an earlier version of Evolution (2.6.0) that had several
bugs. However wee have run into a few problems.

We installed ubuntu 6.06 on a machine (Evolution 2.6.1) and
downloaded Evolution client 2.6.0 source code. The idea was
to compile only the 2.6.0 client (with the bug) and use
the rest of the installed system.

As confiuration:
1) we set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to "/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/home/benkam/
evolution/lib/pkgconfig"

2) we added /home/benkam/evolution/lib/bonobo/servers to /etc/bonobo-
activation

3) used ./configure --prefix=/home/benkam/evolution

make followed by make install seems to produce a complete working  
install of the
Evolution 2.6.0 client in the /home/benkam/evolution directory.  The  
about reports
2.6.0.  However the bugs did not seem to be reproducable. We inserted  
some
tracing calls into several key files that are compiled into the  
evolution libraries.
After rebuilding and reinstalling, the trace output did not appear,  
leading us
to believe that the 2.6.1 libraries are being called from the globally  
installed
application.

Could anyone give any pointers to what we we did wrong, and how we can  
get
a local 2.6.0 copy running?

Many thanks...

Tom.

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[jreidthompson]

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:45 -0400, Thomas Dean wrote:

> I am a security researcher at Queen's University in Canada.
> We are working on a model based intelligent fuzzer for text
> based protocols and data files. One of the file formats
> we were looking at was iCalendar file format. We are trying
> to build an earlier version of Evolution (2.6.0) that had several
> bugs. However wee have run into a few problems.
>
> We installed ubuntu 6.06 on a machine (Evolution 2.6.1) and
> downloaded Evolution client 2.6.0 source code. The idea was
> to compile only the 2.6.0 client (with the bug) and use
> the rest of the installed system.
>
> As confiuration:
> 1) we set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to "/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/home/benkam/
> evolution/lib/pkgconfig"
>
> 2) we added /home/benkam/evolution/lib/bonobo/servers to /etc/bonobo-
> activation
>
> 3) used ./configure --prefix=/home/benkam/evolution
>
> make followed by make install seems to produce a complete working  
> install of the
> Evolution 2.6.0 client in the /home/benkam/evolution directory.  The  
> about reports
> 2.6.0.  However the bugs did not seem to be reproducable. We inserted  
> some
> tracing calls into several key files that are compiled into the  
> evolution libraries.
> After rebuilding and reinstalling, the trace output did not appear,  
> leading us
> to believe that the 2.6.1 libraries are being called from the globally  
> installed
> application.
>
> Could anyone give any pointers to what we we did wrong, and how we can  
> get
> a local 2.6.0 copy running?
>
> Many thanks...
>
> Tom.
>
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How are you starting your evo instance?
Any calls to invoke evo need to be done with the calling environment set
such that your --prefix location is utilized first.




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[Constantin Orăsan]

Hi,

I am a security researcher at Queen's University in Canada.
We are working on a model based intelligent fuzzer for text
based protocols and data files. One of the file formats
we were looking at was iCalendar file format. We are trying
to build an earlier version of Evolution (2.6.0) that had several
bugs. However wee have run into a few problems.

We installed ubuntu 6.06 on a machine (Evolution 2.6.1) and
downloaded Evolution client 2.6.0 source code. The idea was
to compile only the 2.6.0 client (with the bug) and use
the rest of the installed system.

But are you sure you want to compile only the client. I would have thought that you need to have all the components (especially the evolution-data-server) the same version. Why not uninstall all the packages that come with Ubuntu and compile all the 2.6.0 packages.

Just a thought ....

Constantin

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