On 09/30/2012 10:31 PM, PCMan wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Tomas Forsman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2012-09-30 22:11, Andrej N. Gritsenko skrev: >>> Hello! >>> >>> Tomas Forsman has written on Sunday, 30 September, at 21:40: >>> >>>> Anyone knows why libfm requires vala to build now? >>>> 1.0 didn't require it, 1.0.1 do.
my distro uses libfm-1.0rc1.tar.gz ; it doesn't require vala (neither any --disable switches), and vala is not available at all. >>> >>> Even 0.1.99 has required vala to compile. But you can compile 1.0.1 >>> without vala, with option --disable-actions, this is the price. >>> >>> Andriy. >>> >> >> Aha, as im the maintainer of lxde, libfm, pcmanfm in Foresight, I never >> needed to add >> --disable-actions or used vala as build requires until now. >> >> That's why im wondering what changed this time to force to use vala as >> default in building libfm. >> >> // Tomas Forsman > > Because the newly added custom action support uses vala. > However, this only adds some compile-time dependencies. > Vala code is compiled to plain C which is again compiled by gcc to binary. > So at runtime, it only requires glib and gtk+ just like programs written in C. this seems like a bad idea. can't you distribute the tarball with the generated C code ? i have little interest to get vala to compile and add it to the distro just so that libfm can be compiled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
