[Shotwell] Vagaries of building Shotwell from source

[Bruno Girin]

On 07/09/11 03:27, Adam Dingle wrote:
> On 09/05/2011 11:52 PM, Eric Gregory wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Bruno Girin<brunogirin at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm in a bit of a quandary, trying to build Shotwell from source. I
>>> happen to have 2 laptops: one runs Ubuntu Maverick, the other one
>>> Oneiric beta. Shotwell won't build on the former because the version
>>> of gstreamer is too old while it won't build on the latter because the
>>> version of Vala is too recent. Any idea what I can do short of
>>> installing Natty in a VM?
>>>
>> Bruno, I've installed Vala 0.12 on Oneiric before.  It's just a 
>> matter of
>> building it from source.
>
> There's no need to build Vala 0.12 from source on Oneiric: simply 
> install the valac-0.12 package.

That's fine, building Vala from source is quite easy so I now have it 
sorted, thanks! Hopefully I can find time to fix some bugs now.

Bruno