mones/bcmg

Build Claws Mail from Git repo
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This Makefile does what the above title says. So far is targeted to
Debian-based systems and AFAIK only tested on Debian itself. Anyway
it should work on any similar system (except the bootstrapping part).

Before you start
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You need the Makefile on your system, so first step is to install
git and clone the repository. Assuming you're in the directory
where you want to build it:

$ sudo apt-get install git
$ git clone https://github.com/mones/bcmg.git
$ ln -s bcmp/Makefile

To use the Makefile you need "make" to be installed on your System:

$ sudo apt-get install make

After make is installed you need to install the libraries required
to build Claws Mail:

$ sudo make bootstrap-debian

Patches to add bootstrap-$yoursystem targets are welcome.

Default directory for installation is '/opt/claws'. You can change
this by editing the value of PREFIX variable in Makefile or passing
PREFIX=/some/dir to the make command.

Be sure the user invoking make has the right permissions to write
on /opt/claws directory (or the one you had set), for example:

$ sudo mkdir /opt/claws
$ sudo chown user:user /opt/claws

Building Claws Mail
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After completing the previous section this is now very easy:

$ make

That's all. Some log files will be created, so you can check later.

Launching Claws Mail 
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Binary will be on /opt/claws/bin/claws-mail. You may want to add
/opt/claws/bin to your path if you want to use it regularly:

$ echo '$PATH=/opt/claws/bin:$PATH' >> $HOME/.bashrc
$ source $HOME/.bashrc

Or alternatively make a link on some of the directories already on
your path. User's home bin is very suitable for this:

$ test -d $HOME/bin || mkdir $HOME/bin
$ cd $HOME/bin
$ ln -s /opt/claws/bin/claws-mail