First, make sure that all the necessary requirements (README) are satisfied. See RPM instructions below if building for Red Hat Linux. See additional notes below for upgrade instructions. Otherwise:
Download the Courier Socks 5 proxy client library from
http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#sox
and follow its installation instructions. Binary RPMs can
be built from the source code tarball by following the
procedure outlined in http://www.courier-mta.org/FAQ.html#rpm
using the “courier-sox-version
”
tarball, and installing the “courier-sox” and “courier-sox-devel” binary RPMs
afterwards.
This step can be omitted if Socks 5 support is not required. Cone will compile without the Socks 5 proxy toolkit.
Download the source code tarball from http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#cone and unpack it.
Set the appropriate environment variables if the compiler or linker needs any custom command line flags. Run “./configure --help” to list the available environment variables that specify additional arbitrary parameters for the C/C++ compiler.
Run “./configure [options]
”.
See below for a list of available options.
Run make.
The GNU version of the command
is required. On BSD systems
it's the gmake. Use
gmake in
this, and the following steps.
Run make check.
Run make install.
Run make install-configure.
Do not forget “make install-configure”. It is required.
Unless other options are used, Cone installs in /usr/local
:
/usr/local/etc
The configuration file.
/usr/local/bin
The shell script that runs Cone.
/usr/local/libexec
The Cone program itself.
/usr/local/share
Documentation, online help, other files.
/usr/local/lib
and /usr/local/include
The development libraries and include files (only if
--with-devel
was
specified to the configure script).
These installation directories, and other options, may be controlled by additional options to the configure script:
--prefix
, --bindir
, and
others..../configure --help lists about a dozen parameters to the ./configure that specify the directories where various files should be installed.
--with-certdb
, --without-certdb
, --with-certdb=filename
Install or do not install a default set of trusted SSL
certificate authorities. When using SSL Cone normally checks the server's
SSL certificate, which must be signed by a trusted
certificate authority. Cone's source distribution includes
the same list of trusted certificate authorities as the
Mozilla browser. Cone's certificate list is installed
by default, unless Courier is
also installed, in which case Cone's default configuration points
to Courier's
rootcerts
directory (which
contains the same certificate as Cone's).
--with-certdb
installs Cone's trusted
SSL certificate authority list, even if Courier is also installed, in
/usr/local/share/cone/rootcerts
(which
is derived from the --datadir
default option,
as explained by ./configure
--help). --with-certdb=
installs the trusted SSL certificate authority list in
the directory filename
filename
. --without-certdb
does not
install Cone's trusted
SSL certificate authority list.
--with-gnutls
Select the GnuTLS library even if the OpenSSL library is also installed. The configure script automatically selects whichever one is available. The OpenSSL library is selected if both are present. Use this option to override and select GnuTLS instead.
--with-devel
Install LibMAIL , the mail library used by Cone to access and handle E-mail messages.
--with-spellcheck=pspell
Cone can use either aspell or pspell for spell checking. aspell is used if both are installed. This option selects pspell instead.
Upgrading Cone consists simply of building the new version, and installing it. The new version will overwrite the previous version. Special upgrade instructions are given below.
The address book format has changed in version 0.60. The old address book format will be automatically converted to the new format, when necessary, so no manual intervention is necessary. If Cone is later downgraded to an earlier version, addresses in an address book that contain non-English characters will not be shown correctly.
Use the following procedure to build Cone.
The first step is to create a work area for building RPMs. Skip this step if an RPM build directory is already configured.
echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpm" > $HOME/.rpmmacros mkdir $HOME/rpm cd $HOME/rpm mkdir SOURCES SPECS BUILD SRPMS RPMS
Finally, download the source code to Cone from http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#cone. Do
not unpack the tarball. Execute “rpmbuild -ta
cone-version
.tar.bz2”.
Two binary RPMs will be created: the main binary package
contains Cone. The
“devel” package
contains the LibMAIL library
and development files. It is only necessary to install the
main package to run Cone the
“devel” subpackage is
only needed for additional development with LibMAIL .
It is also possible to check out the source from CVS,
however additional requirements apply. Besides the usual
prerequisites for building Cone, additional development software
must be installed. See the “Download via CVS” instructions at
http://www.courier-mta.org/status.html.
Cone has the same
requirements as Courier for
CVS builds (technically, Cone does not need libtool, but that may
change in the future). Make sure that the prerequisite
software is installed, then check out the “
Cone” module from CVS,
tagged at revision “ Cone-latest”. The
HEAD
may be checked out, but
carries more of the usual risks.
After the module is checked out, run the autobloat
shell script to rebuild the
autoconf/automake scripts.