On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:47:47 -0500, Saptarshi Guha <saptarshi.guha@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having given up on most email clients yet trapped by them, I came  
> across notmuch.
> Quite eager to build,

Hi Saptarshi, Welcome to notmuch!

I hope you find it helpful.

> In the INSTALL/README file, mention that xapian-config should be on path
> and that it be called xapian-config.
> When I installed the latest, it was installed in /usr/local/bin (not  
> in my path)
> at xapian-config-1.1

OK. I've added that now.

> 2. download gmime (no problem here)

Good news.

> 3. Install talloc (the makefile has errors in it)

What's the error here? (Not that it's our bug, but it would be nice to
report it to the talloc folks or perhaps warn notmuch users about it).

> lib/index.cc: In function void  
> _index_address_mailbox(notmuch_message_t*, const char*,  
> InternetAddress*):
> lib/index.cc:46: error: strndup was not declared in this scope

Some systems (including yours) don't have a strndup function. One
proposed plan is to put an implementation of strndup into notmuch, (it's
not a complex function). But then again, we could just change the caller
to use talloc_strndup instead.

Portability patches are always welcome, (otherwise I'll try to do things
when I can but I won't be able to test things well).

-Carl