check if vala is available, fail if not, partially fixes #626697

1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 8baf22aa..f160d034 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ srcdir=`dirname $0`
 test -z "$srcdir" && srcdir=.
 
 PKG_NAME="cheese"
+REQUIRED_VALA_VERSION=0.9.2
 
 (test -f $srcdir/src/cheese-main.vala) || {
     echo -n "**Error**: Directory "\`$srcdir\'" does not look like the"
@@ -17,6 +18,41 @@ which gnome-autogen.sh || {
     exit 1
 }
 
+# Usage:
+#     compare_versions MIN_VERSION ACTUAL_VERSION
+# returns true if ACTUAL_VERSION >= MIN_VERSION
+compare_versions() {
+    ch_min_version=$1
+    ch_actual_version=$2
+    ch_status=0
+    IFS="${IFS=         }"; ch_save_IFS="$IFS"; IFS="."
+    set $ch_actual_version
+    for ch_min in $ch_min_version; do
+        ch_cur=`echo $1 | sed 's/[^0-9].*$//'`; shift # remove letter suffixes
+        if [ -z "$ch_min" ]; then break; fi
+        if [ -z "$ch_cur" ]; then ch_status=1; break; fi
+        if [ $ch_cur -gt $ch_min ]; then break; fi
+        if [ $ch_cur -lt $ch_min ]; then ch_status=1; break; fi
+    done
+    IFS="$ch_save_IFS"
+    return $ch_status
+}
+
+which valac || {
+    echo "**Error**: You must have valac >= $REQUIRED_VALA_VERSION installed to build $PKG_NAME"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+# Vala version check
+test -z "$VALAC" && VALAC=valac
+VALA_VERSION=`$VALAC --version | cut -d" " -f2`
+echo $VALA_VERSION
+
+if ! compare_versions $REQUIRED_VALA_VERSION $VALA_VERSION; then
+    echo "**Error**: You must have valac >= $REQUIRED_VALA_VERSION installed to build $PKG_NAME, you have $VALA_VERSION"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 gtkdocize || exit 1
 
 REQUIRED_AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.57