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.

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