Re: [Shotwell] Building shotwell on EL7

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

But you should not use it for publishing because all versions prior 
0.23.0 do not verify SSL certificates!

> For anyone who has the same question and finds this thread, the
> resolution is this:  the best version to use on SL/CentOS/RHEL 7 (if
> you want something later than their default 0.14) appears to be 0.22.1
>  .  At that point the vala syntax errors have been fixed, and starting
> with version 0.23 there are new dependencies that are not easy to
> satisfy on SL7.
>
> I also installed vala 0.32.1 to do the compile.
>
> Thanks for your help Jens and Andreas!
>
> Boris
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:08 AM, Jens Georg <mail jensge org> wrote:
>
> > 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 [1]: 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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