On Sun, 15 May 2011 23:01:58 +0200
Andrew Stacey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> I've installed vala-0.12.0 and when I compile shotwell-0.9.3 I get a
> load of errors beginning with:
> 
> /home/astacey/local/src/shotwell-0.9.3/src/plugins/PublishingInterfaces.vala.c:193:
> error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘GDateTime’
> 

Your glib is too old and vala was compiled against this old glib.

Best reagrds,

Kostya

> (I can paste more of the errors if that would help.)
> 
> As far as I can tell (I'm no expert on reading Makefiles), it does
> the package version check with no errors.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 09:06:49PM +0200, Andreas Brauchli wrote:
> > Hi Andrew
> > 
> > the Makefile is supposed to check for correct library versions:
> > look out for the EXT_PKG_VERSIONS variable.
> > 
> > the vala version is checked as well as defined in
> > MIN_VALAC_VERSION := 0.11.7
> > and MAX_VALAC_VERSION if defined (which is not currently the case,
> > but used to be in the 0.8 days which didn't compile with valac
> > 0.11+)
> > 
> > shotwell 0.9.3 is definitely supposed to compile with vala 0.12
> > 
> > cheerios with milk
> > andreas
> > 
> > On Son, 2011-05-15 at 19:46 +0200, Andrew Stacey wrote:
> > > Is there a list somewhere of the dependencies *with their
> > > versions* for compiling shotwell?  After "upgrading" from Ubuntu
> > > 10.10 to Debian Squeeze, I found that the version of shotwell
> > > went down, so thought I'd compile it myself.  I installed the
> > > stated dependencies, compiled libraw and libgexiv2 from source as
> > > stated on the installation webpage, and also installed vala from
> > > source, but then shotwell kept producing errors when I tried to
> > > compile it.  As the errors appeared to be to do with vala syntax,
> > > I tried installing different versions of vala but to no avail.  I
> > > also tried with different versions of shotwell.
> > > 
> > > In total, I tried shotwell 0.8.1 and 0.9.3 against each of vala
> > > 0.10.4, 0.11.7, and 0.12.0.  But each time would get errors of
> > > some sort or other. Before posting for help on the specific
> > > errors, I thought it worth doing the "sanity" check and asking
> > > which versions of the dependencies shotwell should be compiled
> > > against.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Andrew Stacey
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> > 
> > 
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