Re: [Banshee-List] Installing 2.9.1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected in autogen.sh

[Nicholas Little <arealityfarbetween googlemail com>]

In fact, try out this branch:
https://github.com/arfbtwn/banshee/tree/feature/csharp4

I've reverted the C#6 syntax that was recently introduced in
Notifications - IIRC there are no others on master branch, fingers
crossed :)


On 14 September 2017 at 19:23, Nicholas Little
<arealityfarbetween googlemail com> wrote:
> On 14 September 2017 at 16:12, Sharky <simondedman gmail com> wrote:
> > Thanks again pal.
> >
> > Code run below, much of this was guesswork as I'm a very different level of
> > understanding and probably need things spelled out in crayon (!):
>
> we've all been there at some point or another :)
>
> > "try resetting with git"
> > $ git reset --hard
> > > no output/report, hopefully that means "congrats it worked!"
>
> bingo +1
>
> All good *nix tools are like that - strong and silent. (when all is well)
>
> > "and autogenning again"
> > $ ./autogen.sh
> > > No package 'gstreamer-sharp-1.0' found
> > $ ./configure --enable-gst-native
> > > yay
> > $ make
> > > same notification errors
>
> as an FYI - autogen.sh calls configure after generating it with any
> switches you pass so you can shorten this with:
>
> ./autogen.sh --enable-gst-native
>
> and it should succeed every time.
>
> > "explicitly set the MCS environment variable to a compatible compiler, "man
> > mcs" should provide some information about what's on your system. (although
> > that's probably what's already in use)"
> > Not sure what a compatible compiler is and isn't MCS a compiler itself, i.e.
> > if it's not compatible, don't I need to select something else? Basing this
> > simply off intuition rather than knowledge.
> > $ mcs --version
> > > Mono C# compiler version 4.6.2.0
>
> yup, mcs is the C# compiler and the MCS make variable is what the
> makefile references to do the build with. There's also MCS_FLAGS but
> for some reason I can't get either of them to take effect without
> editing the Makefiles directly, I've raised this issue to record that
> for addressing later: https://github.com/arfbtwn/banshee/issues/47
>
> So, as a test I edited the Makefile in the Notifications directory and
> set MCS_FLAGS = -langversion:4. With that I was able to generate this
> kind of error with my compiler:
>
> ./Notifications/Notifications.cs(90,59): error CS1644: Feature
> `expression bodied members' cannot be used because it is not part of
> the C# 4.0 language specification
>
> To get passed this point you'll need one of:
>
> - an mcs supporting -langversion:6 and a way to pass it;
> - a patch to remove the C#6 syntax from Notifications or; (this one's
> also really easy)
> - a mono upgrade to a 5.x version. (-langversion:6 is default on my 5.2.0.196)
>
> Somewhat unrelated but Banshee has a configure switch --disable-shave
> that you may find useful when debugging things like this - it causes
> the build to output its commands verbosely so you can see exactly
> what's going on.
>
> > "As a heads up - after merging I quickly added the Notifications project
> > reference in the B.SoundMenu extension's project file but I made a mistake
> > when doing so, just remove and re-add that reference to
> > resolve that if you want to build it using the project file. I need to add a
> > commit to resolve that."
> > Sounds good. I have literally no idea what I am required to do here so in
> > lieu of taking any action, will just stare off into the middle distance and
> > contemplate my life choices.
>
> Just in case you were also using something like Monodevelop. If you
> aren't using an IDE that understands the *.sln and *.csproj files in
> the repository then don't worry about it - the error is only in the
> project file, the auto-tools system builds it just fine. (provided a
> compiler supporting the necessary language version)
>
> As you can imagine having the two build systems disconnected muddies
> things even further, this pull request should make things a little
> better but solving the disconnect is a large bit of work:
> https://github.com/arfbtwn/banshee/pull/42
>
> > You're pretty much there at this point - give yourself a pat on the back :)
> > https://media.giphy.com/media/9Q249Qsl5cfLi/giphy.gif
>
> Loved that show! - can't get the theme tune out of my head now.
>
> > "Ps. When the PPA is setup it really will be just a case of executing
> > apt-get build-dep banshee."
> > T'will be a glorious day.
> >
> > Thanks as ever for your help!
>
> Happy to.
>
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