Re: External dependency proposal: Vala

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 17:52 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 12:11 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > I would rephrase this as "valac as a build dependency for gnome"
> > 
> > as valac is like yacc/bison/flex in that there is no runtime dependency
> > and only people developing or compiling from git will need it (tarballs
> > and distributed source will contain the generated c files so wont be
> > needed there)
> 
> If people can't hack from tarballs, then it's useless. I already
> complained to Zeeshan about that, though I'm not sure whether it's
> because of the code in Rygel's makefiles, or automake's vala support.
> 
> Distributors will want to be able to apply patches to tarballs, and have
> the changes automatically rebuilt (even if that means having the vala
> pre-processor installed in the buildroots).

If you enable maintainer-mode, this should not be an issue. It should
behave exactly the same as with .c files generated by bison and flex.

Jürg