%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Vala Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI compared to applications and libraries written in C. &lfs81_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &vala-md5sum; Download size: &vala-size; Estimated disk space required: &vala-buildsize; Estimated build time: &vala-time; Vala Dependencies Required Optional (Required for the tests), (Required for valadoc), (Required for generating the documentation) User Notes: Install Vala by running the following commands: The two sed commands and the autoreconf command below are required if the optional dependency is not installed. This will allow building the valadoc prgram and libraries that can be used to generate API documentation in HTML format from Vala source code. sed -i '102d; 108,124d; 126,127d' configure.ac && sed -i '/valadoc/d' Makefile.am && ACLOCAL= autoreconf -fiv && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make To test the results, issue: make check. Now, as the root user: make install Installed Programs Installed Library Installed Directories vala, vala-&vala-major-version;, valac, valadoc, vala-gen-introspect, vapicheck, and vapigen (symlinks); valac-&vala-major-version;, valadoc-&vala-major-version;, vala-gen-introspect-&vala-major-version;, vapicheck-&vala-major-version;, and vapigen-&vala-major-version; libvala-&vala-major-version;.so and libvaladoc-&vala-major-version;.so /usr/include/vala-&vala-major-version;, /usr/include/valadoc-&vala-major-version;, /usr/lib/vala-&vala-major-version;, /usr/lib/valadoc, /usr/share/vala, /usr/share/valadoc, /usr/share/devhelp/books/vala-&vala-major-version;, and /usr/share/vala-&vala-major-version; Short Descriptions valac is a compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. valac vala-gen-introspect generates a GI file for GObject and GLib based packages. vala-gen-introspect vapicheck verifies the generated bindings. vapicheck vapigen is an utility which generates Vala API (VAPI) files from GI files. vapigen libvala-&vala-major-version;.so contains the Vala API functions. libvala-&vala-major-version;.so