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. _______________________________________________ shotwell-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/shotwell-list
