[Shotwell] Install Vala 0.11.3??

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On 01/08/2011 04:28 AM, Maciej Rumianowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First you should have Vala-0.10.2 tarball.
> All information about installation you can find in this tar just unpack
> and rear INSTALL file.
> The simplest way is to type 3 commands in the source directory:
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
> Cheers
> Maciek
> Dnia 2011-01-07, pią o godzinie 22:40 -0500, . pisze: 
>> I have no idea how to install Vala.
>>
>> I read the link at http://yorba.org/shotwell/install/
>>
>> ....and went to http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Release to get the tar of Vala.
>>
>> The problem is I have no idea how to install Vala.  I'm really new at
>> Ubuntu so the directions make too many assumptions in ability (which I
>> don't have).
>>
>> Can someone give the the exact commands to install Vala?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
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>
It didn't install. 

Here are the results of the efforts to install Vala- 

echo at echo-laptop:~$ cd ~/Vala-0.10.2
bash: cd: /home/echo/Vala-0.10.2: No such file or directory
echo at echo-laptop:~$ cd ~/Vala-0.10.2
bash: cd: /home/echo/Vala-0.10.2: No such file or directory
echo at echo-laptop:~$ cd ~/vala-0.10.2
echo at echo-laptop:~/vala-0.10.2$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking how to convert i686-pc-linux-gnu file names to
i686-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert i686-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain
format... func_convert_file_noop
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for dlltool... no
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
checking for ar... ar
checking for archiver @FILE support... @
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for sysroot... no
checking for mt... mt
checking if mt is a manifest tool... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
configure: error: flex not found but required
echo at echo-laptop:~/vala-0.10.2$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.




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