I was just having the same problem. I noticed that it was failing to find some gobject introspection files; I installed gobject-introspection-devel and it worked.
--Mike On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 15:53 -0400, Nathan Samson wrote: > Only after installing vala 0.19 from source it started to build. > > Might it be that the minimal vala version is 0.19 and not 0.17.X? > > Cheers, > Nathan > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Nathan Samson <[email protected]>wrote: > > > [nathan@psi ~]$ valac --version > > Vala 0.18.1 > > [nathan@psi ~]$ type -a valac > > valac is /usr/bin/valac > > valac is /bin/valac > > [nathan@psi ~]$ cd /usr/ > > [nathan@psi usr]$ find -iname valac > > ^C > > [nathan@psi usr]$ find -iname '*valac*' > > ./share/man/man1/valac.1 > > ./share/man/man1/valac-0.18.1.gz > > ./share/man/man1/valac.1.gz > > ./share/man/man1/valac-0.18.1 > > find: `./share/polkit-1/rules.d': Toegang geweigerd > > ./include/vala-0.18/valacodegen.h > > ./include/vala-0.18/valaccode.h > > ./bin/valac-0.18 > > ./bin/valac > > find: `./lib/firewalld': Toegang geweigerd > > find: `./lib64/audit': Toegang geweigerd > > find: `./var/lib/udisks2': Toegang geweigerd > > [nathan@psi usr]$ ls -l /bin/valac > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 10 mrt 11:01 /bin/valac -> > > /etc/alternatives/valac > > [nathan@psi usr]$ ls -l /usr/bin/valac > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 10 mrt 11:01 /usr/bin/valac -> > > /etc/alternatives/valac > > [ > > > > Note that as per Fedoras "/" and "/usr" merge, /usr/bin and /bin are > > exactly the same. > > > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi Nathan, > >> > >> Eric's right, that means something's wrong with the compiler. If you > >> type this on the console, what do you see? > >> > >> $ valac --version > >> > >> You might search /usr and be sure that you don't have an older version of > >> Vala installed. > >> > >> -- Jim > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:02 AM, Nathan Samson <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> I am using Fedora 18 (as stated in the topic). I installed vala from > >> default fedora repositories. (0.18.1) > >> > >> Shotwell has exactly the same problem so it seems. > >> I've tried reinstallig vala but that didn't help... > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Nathan > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Eric Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mar 9, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Nathan Samson wrote: > >> > >> > Partial Error is @ http://pastebin.com/vTUWE1Xr > >> > > >> > > >> > Other VAPI files return similar results. > >> > > >> > I've installed all packages as described on the wiki, So it is not the > >> same > >> > problem as > >> http://lists.yorba.org/pipermail/geary/2013-February/000147.html > >> > >> Since the compilation errors are in the Vapi files rather than Geary, > >> that's a sign that there's something very wrong with your Vala > >> installation. What OS are you using, and how exactly did you install > >> Vala? > >> > >> Do other Vala/GTK applications compile on your system? > >> > >> - Eric > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Geary mailing > >> [email protected]http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geary > >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Geary mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geary _______________________________________________ Geary mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geary
