On 11/10/2014 01:12 PM, Adam Dingle wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Gerry Reno <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 11/10/2014 11:41 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 10 November 2014 16:27, Gerry Reno <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 11/10/2014 11:20 AM, Colin Law wrote: >> >> On 10 November 2014 15:14, Gerry Reno <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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. > > I think the easiest solution here by far is to upgrade to a newer version of > your distro if at all possible. I run > the latest (non-LTS) Ubuntu, for example - it's very stable. > > adam
That's not the easiest solution. If it were the easiest solution I wouldn't have even posted this. _______________________________________________ shotwell-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/shotwell-list
