Re: [Shotwell] Help to compile

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Fri, 2020-03-27 at 09:54 +0100, Dani wrote:
> Hello Jens:    :-)
>
>
> I set a custom folder to install.
>
> $ meson build --prefix=/home/user/shotwell_test
>
> Build work fine, but install fail
>
>     raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'itstool'
> FAILED: meson-install 
> /usr/bin/meson install --no-rebuild
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

Oh. Interesting. That's probably a bug in meson or our meson scripts.
That will always fail, not just for your home install.

You need to apt install itstool. If I remember correctly, It is used
for the translation in the help files-