On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:05:35PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: [ retitled - this is only about lxsession-0.5.2. ]
> I can take a > look at lxsession's deps this evening to see what I think the vala > positions is. > According to the changelog for 0.5.1 it was all rewritten in vala. Wikipedia says that is a language which produces C code from input which references gobjects, or something like that. There is a huge chunk in configure which looks contradictory - without vala I get WARNING: you will not be able to compile vala source files But then immediately after that there is a test which does NOT trigger, that would apparently error out - as_fn_error $? "You need Vala compiler" "$LINENO" 5 So I have no idea if the ideas have changed, so that somebody thinks being able to compile vala files would be a good idea but not absolutely necessary, or if the error was still intended to appear. On the face of it, Makefile.am supplies a whole bunch of code if vala is present, but I have no clear idea what happens when it is not present (except that it seems to build and work ok on a brief test) and I'm not inclined to go back into qemu to try to work out what was omitted. For the moment, I still regard vala as NOT required here, but no idea if it should be recommended for full functionality. I'm sorely tempted to go back to ignoring lxde, because to me (even while it is still using gtk+-2) it does not _feel_ lightweight (or finished - the whole libfm business makes me think it is developed by people upgrading an existing lxde system and never tested from scratch). And when lxqt appears I somehow doubt that it will be able to clain it is lightweight. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
