[Shotwell] Build errors

[Paul Novak]

On 01/25/2010 01:07 PM, Lucas Beeler wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
>    First of all, we appreciate your making us aware of a build issue
> on Fedora 12. The diagnostic information you provided was helpful. One
> further question though: when you used git to fetch the vala and
> libgee sources from gnome.org, did you pull the source from trunk or
> did you pull it from a stable release branch? In general, Gnome
> sources pulled from trunk are under active development and may be
> unstable. One thing you might want to try is rebuilding and
> reinstalling vala and libgee from stable release tarballs, accessible
> through the following links:
> 
> Vala:
> http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Release
> 
> Libgee:
> http://live.gnome.org/Libgee/Release
> 
>    Once again, thanks for giving us the heads up.
> 
> Best regards,
> Lucas
> 

Lucas,

Thanks for the pointer about using the stable releases. Using the stable
release tarballs of vala and libgee allows me to build shotwell. When I
try to run it, it still fails at runtime with the error "Illegal
instruction", while the debug build works. I would like to help
troubleshoot. Do you have any suggestions on where to start?

I have also updated the shotwell installation page, at
http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/ShotwellInstallation, to reflect that the
stable source releases (or Rawhide) should be used.

Paul