Comment 8 for bug 1018278

so I switched over to valac 16
sudo update-alternatives config --valac

and still get the same error
[ 51%] Building C object src/CMakeFiles/marlin.dir/View/Window.c.o
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c: In function ‘marlin_view_window_colorize_current_tab_selection’:
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c:1187:40: error: ‘FM_DIRECTORY_TYPE_VIEW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c:1187:40: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c: In function ‘marlin_view_window_change_tab’:
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c:1326:28: error: ‘FM_DIRECTORY_TYPE_VIEW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c: In function ‘marlin_view_window_action_show_hide_contextview’:
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c:2095:26: error: ‘FM_DIRECTORY_TYPE_VIEW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c: In function ‘marlin_view_window_action_zoom_in_callback’:
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c:2224:30: error: ‘FM_DIRECTORY_TYPE_VIEW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c: In function ‘marlin_view_window_action_zoom_out_callback’:
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c:2253:31: error: ‘FM_DIRECTORY_TYPE_VIEW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c: In function ‘marlin_view_window_action_zoom_normal_callback’:
/opt/marlin/build/src/View/Window.c:2322:34: error: ‘FM_DIRECTORY_TYPE_VIEW’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/marlin.dir/View/Window.c.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/marlin.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Valac 18 actually got me to 85%

i wonder ... does putting the source in /opt/marlin have something to do with it?

TIA