I’ve been planning to testScalable OpenGroupware.orgfor some time now, but all my email boxes are 64 bit and Inverse only provides 32bit rpms.

Recompiling the RPMS hit some unfortunate problems, andthe maillinglist didn’tprovide much help. The project got shelved for not being workable - until a client asked for a calendar solution.

This time I tried to use the 32bit rpms without recompiling them. This works very well except for one part: mod_ngobjweb needs to be 64 bit as it is part of apache.

Back to what stopped me the last time: Compiling Sope for a 64 bit machine.

Toiling away with a new version of SOGO + deps, this little gemappeared. It describes all the variables that may be used when compiling Sope. With this information the project moved forward by adding

%define apache_modules_dir %{usr}/lib/httpd/modules
%define apache_conf_dir    %{sysconfdir}/httpd/conf.d
%define ngobjweb_requires  httpd
%define sope_major_version 4
%define sope_minor_version 7
%define sope_source SOPE.tar.gz
%define sope_version %{sope_major_version}.%{sope_minor_version}
%define sope_release 1626
%define sope_buildcount 1
%define dist_suffix el5
%define sope_prefix /usr/GNUstep/System
%define sope_makeflags all

To the top of the sope.spec file. Installing just mod_ngobjweb worked fine and Sogo is now up and running. Yay!