[Geary] compilation help

[Eric Gregory]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:11 PM, TC Meggs <tc at tnktp.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Jim,
>
> To be extra safe, I had actually rm -rf'd the directory and did a fresh
> git clone. And yes, it was exactly the same error. It was very strange, the
> rest of the build would have not gotten as far if those vapis were actually
> missing (I don't think) and the referenced missing vapi files are in fact
> all in place. I installed Vala from a tarball from the Vala website. One
> thing that oddly came to me in a dream on Saturday night was I should build
> Vala from GIT with my tarball I built of Vala 0.18.1. Again, the latest
> version packages from standard Debian sources (wheezy or sid) aren't recent
> enough to hit the pre-reqs for geary. Just now I built Vala from GIT with
> the vala from the tarball and Geary compiled albeit with some type errors.
> I'll restart Geary and check it out now.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>


One clarification here -- the errors aren't related to missing vapis,
they're due to missing GIRs.  On Ubuntu they're installed to
/usr/share/gir-1.0

So when Vala's telling you it can't find Atk-1.0, what it means is it can't
find Atk-1.0.gir, etc.  You might just try searching for those filenames on
your system, it could be they're simply installed someplace that Vala
doesn't know about.

 - Eric