Issues compiling upower 0.99.4 in mint 17.1 / ubuntu 14.04

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Andreas,

Andreas Donath [2015-06-16 15:31 +0200]:
> 	The installed (by default) version of upower is:
> 	0.9.23-2ubuntu1
> 
> 	So I thought I would compile a newer version, hoping that
> 	the device will be correctly recognized.
> 	
> 	I checked out version 0.99.4 from github but autogen.sh fails.

You cant' do this. 0.99 has a different D-Bus API than 0.9. All other
software in Ubuntu 14.04 expects the upower 0.9 API, not the 1.0 one.

> ./configure: line 3138: syntax error near unexpected token `0.9.9'
> ./configure: line 3138: `GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_CHECK(0.9.9)'

You probably don't have the build dependencies installed, in
particular libgirepository1.0-dev and gobject-introspection. You need
"apt-get build-dep upower". But again, don't do that.

Martin
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