Re: [Shotwell] Shotwell autotools conversion

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> > I would appreciate any testing, especially on non-ubuntu systems.
>
> Hi Jens,
>    I tested that branch on Fedora 23. I had to install the

Thank you :)

> autoconf-archive package for the AX_GENERATE_CHANGELOG macro.
> autogen.sh now runs however make fails with this error:

Ah, good point, I always forget that.
> Makefile:5721: *** recipe commences before first target.  Stop.
>
> The relevant line is the first @if in this block:
>
> $(srcdir)/--target-glib=2.32:
> $(srcdir)/thumbnailer_shotwell_video_thumbnailer_vala.stamp
>         @if test -f $@; then :; else rm -f
> $(srcdir)/thumbnailer_shotwell_video_thumbnailer_vala.stamp; fi
>         @if test -f $@; then :; else \
>           $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS)
> $(srcdir)/thumbnailer_shotwell_video_thumbnailer_vala.stamp; \
>         fi

Thought I had fixed it, has something to do with the order of vala 
flags.

> I verified there are tabs and not spaces in that section of the
> Makefile.
>
> $ make --version
> GNU Make 4.0
> Built for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
>
> I'm not sure if this is related but I see in the autogen.sh output the
> following two errors:
>
> ./configure: line 16379: YELP_HELP_INIT: command not found
> ./configure: line 16381: APPDATA_XML: command not found

and that's bad as well, that should cause an error at autogen.sh level 
already