I maintain the GNOMEish app deja-dup. I also would like it if GNOME supported apps that want to stay on a stable compiler during the cycle.
I use the following macro in acinclude.m4 to allow specifying a specific valac-X.XX version with a friendly fallback to valac. In configure.ac: DD_PROG_VALAC([0.14.0], [valac-0.14 valac]) In acinclude.m4: AC_DEFUN([DD_PROG_VALAC], [AC_PATH_PROGS([VALAC], [$2], []) AS_IF([test -z "$VALAC"], [AC_MSG_ERROR([No Vala compiler found.])], [AS_IF([test -n "$1"], [AC_MSG_CHECKING([$VALAC is at least version $1]) am__vala_version=`$VALAC --version | sed 's/Vala *//'` AS_VERSION_COMPARE([$1], ["$am__vala_version"], [AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])], [AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])], [AC_MSG_RESULT([no]) AC_MSG_ERROR([Vala $1 not found.])])])]) ]) -mt _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list