What I did was downloaded the source files, ran the configure & make (actually make install too), and then executed the binary. Not sure if doing the make install was the best option, but I did it anyway so I could launch the evince I built. Evince launches fine, but it does not seem to be able to open files. If I have the wrong approach here, let me know. My thoughts were to reproduce the problem on my machine (which I did), then get the source code and start learning how it works to see where I might make any changes to fix the bug.
What I did was downloaded the source files, ran the configure & make (actually make install too), and then executed the binary. Not sure if doing the make install was the best option, but I did it anyway so I could launch the evince I built. Evince launches fine, but it does not seem to be able to open files. If I have the wrong approach here, let me know. My thoughts were to reproduce the problem on my machine (which I did), then get the source code and start learning how it works to see where I might make any changes to fix the bug.