Re: [Shotwell] Building shotwell on EL7

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

Hi,

this was a bug in vala which caused this to work despite being wrong.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/shotwell/commit/?id=8a18a1db584ecb0312583b6a219d5ba31187d963

fixes this

> Thanks for the suggestion!   Can you point me to a version of vala
> that ought to work?
>
> WIth Vala 0.32.1 I get a different error, but shotwell still doesn't
> compile:
>
> [...cut...]
>
> valac --target-glib=2.30.0 -g --enable-checking --fatal-warnings
> --save-temps --compile --enable-deprecated \
>
>  --vapidir=../ --pkg=shotwell-plugin-dev-1.0 --pkg=gobject-2.0
> --pkg=glib-2.0 --pkg=gdk-3.0 --pkg=gtk+-3.0 --pkg=gee-0.8
> --pkg=gtk+-3.0 --pkg=libsoup-2.4 --pkg=libxml-2.0 --pkg=webkitgtk-3.0
> --pkg=gexiv2 --pkg=rest-0.7 --pkg=gee-0.8 --pkg=json-glib-1.0  \
>
>  -X -I../.. -X -fPIC \
>
>  -X -D_VERSION='"0.15.1"' -X -DGETTEXT_PACKAGE='"shotwell"' \
>
>  --vapidir=../../vapi \
>
>  ../common/Resources.vala shotwell-publishing.vala
> FacebookPublishing.vala PicasaPublishing.vala FlickrPublishing.vala
> YouTubePublishing.vala PiwigoPublishing.vala
> ../../src/util/string.vala ../common/RESTSupport.vala
>
> ../COMMON/RESTSUPPORT.VALA:466.5-466.22: ERROR: destructor and parent
> symbol name do not match
>
>     ~RESTXmlDocument() {
>
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>
> Boris
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Andreas Brauchli
> <a brauchli elementarea net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Boris
> >
> > This is just a guess, but it looks like your valac version is rather
> > old too (26.1 from a quick search of what's shipped on centos 7),
> > you could try updating vala first and then try compiling shotwell
> > again with the more recent valac.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Andreas
> >
> > On Jul 17, 2016 21:15, "Boris Goldowsky" <boris alum mit edu> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm having trouble building any recent version of Shotwell on
> > > Scientific Linux 7 (which, for these purposes, is the same as
> > > Redhat Enterprise or CentOS 7).  Shotwell 0.14.1 ships with this
> > > OS, but I'd like to use a more recent version (the main reason is
> > > that my existing photo library was created with 0.15 and won't
> > > load with an earlier version).
> > >
> > > I've tried the 0.15, 0.18, 0.23, and latest from Git but had no
> > > success with any of them.
> > >
> > > If anyone has advice or is willing to help me get this to work,
> > > I'd very much appreciate it.
> > >
> > > For 0.15, here's the result of attempting to build:
> > >
> > > ./configure && make
> > > Detected libGPhoto 2.5.x - using 2.5-aware code path.
> > > Configured.  Type 'make' to build, 'make install' to install.
> > > [many lines deleted]
> > > valac --target-glib=2.30.0 -g --enable-checking --fatal-warnings
> > > --save-temps --compile --enable-deprecated \
> > > --vapidir=../ --pkg=shotwell-plugin-dev-1.0 --pkg=gobject-2.0
> > > --pkg=glib-2.0 --pkg=gdk-3.0 --pkg=gtk+-3.0 --pkg=gee-0.8
> > > --pkg=gtk+-3.0 --pkg=libsoup-2.4 --pkg=libxml-2.0
> > > --pkg=webkitgtk-3.0 --pkg=gexiv2 --pkg=rest-0.7 --pkg=gee-0.8
> > > --pkg=json-glib-1.0  \
> > > -X -I../.. -X -fPIC \
> > > -X -D_VERSION='"0.15.1"' -X -DGETTEXT_PACKAGE='"shotwell"' \
> > > \
> > > --vapidir=../../vapi \
> > > ../common/Resources.vala shotwell-publishing.vala
> > > FacebookPublishing.vala PicasaPublishing.vala
> > > FlickrPublishing.vala YouTubePublishing.vala PiwigoPublishing.vala
> > > ../../src/util/string.vala ../common/RESTSupport.vala
> > > FacebookPublishing.vala:1496.25-1497.108: error: Too many
> > > arguments for specified format
> > > FlickrPublishing.vala:399.33-400.85: error: Too few arguments for
> > > specified format
> > > FlickrPublishing.vala:409.29-410.81: error: Too few arguments for
> > > specified format
> > > Compilation failed: 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> > >
> > > I tried common-sense fixes for the vala errors, but it still
> > > didn't work.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks -
> > >
> > > Boris
> > >
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