On 11/10/2014 11:41 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 10 November 2014 16:27, Gerry Reno <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 11/10/2014 11:20 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 10 November 2014 15:14, Gerry Reno <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I would like to stay current with Shotwell releases by compiling 
>>>> everything from source.
>>>>
>>>> The problem I run into is that with each Shotwell release dependencies are 
>>>> changing and many times the distro is unable
>>>> to provide some of these dependencies.
>>> Can you give some examples of dependencies that the distro is unable to 
>>> provide?
>>>
>>> Colin
>> How about even the compiler:
>> $ make
>> Shotwell requires Vala compiler 0.20.1 or greater.  You are running 0.16.1 
>> \b.
>> make: *** [valacheck] Error 1
>> # yum list vala
>> Available Packages
>> vala.i686                                                  0.16.1-1.fc17
>> updates
>>
>> And before you go down the path that F17 is EOL.  There are a lot of people 
>> who have very stable systems running older
>> releases of Fedora as well as other distros.  Including Ubuntu LTS distros 
>> that would like to be able to have a current
>> and working Shotwell install.
> Good point.  In the case of old versions of Ubuntu, Vala is available
> via a ppa I believe, but I don't know whether the equivalent exists
> for Fedora.
>
> It is difficult to see a solution.  If the required version of Vala is
> not available for Fedora then the only solution I can see would be to
> build it oneself.  The same would apply for any other dependencies I
> imagine.  Perhaps that is what you were thinking of,  a complete set
> of sources and build scripts for all the dependencies.
>
> Colin
>

> Is there a way to compile Shotwell and all of its dependencies from source 
> separate from the distro as a whole build
process?

That's what I am asking for.  An entire build process for everything.

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