So, it seems that the discussion died on these shores.
In the meantime, GVfs is but the latest module that broke because
people don't test under builddir != srcdir; I really, *really* don't
want to deal with this kind of perfectly avoidable build breakages any
more.
Ciao,
Emmanuele.
--
On 2 March 2016 at 10:29, Yanko Kaneti <yaneti declera com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 09:54 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
>> On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 14:33 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
>> >
>> > My proposal is to enable this behaviour in the default jhbuildrc,
>> > so
>> > that all GNOME projects automatically build in a separate root.
>> > This
>> > change should have no, or minimal impact on the subset of the
>> > moduleset that is covered by Continuous; it may require fixing the
>> > build of various modules in the gnome-apps or gnome-world
>> > modulesets.
>> > The major upsides would be that:
>> +1, I've been wanting to do this for a while.
>>
>> There is a problem though, in that Automake's vala support is pretty
>> broken for git builds where builddir != srcdir, hence all (well,
>> virtually all) vala projects only support builddir != srcdir when
>> building from tarballs. Sometimes the only way to fix builddir !=
>> srcdir issues is to introduce broken nonsensical changes to the
>> Automake file [1]. So when you make this change, you should do a
>> clean
>> build of all the modules and add exceptions for all the modules that
>> break, with the expectation that most Vala modules will be broken.
>> (You
>> were probably planning to do this anyway, so just pointing it out.)
>>
>> If anyone is interested in fixing this in Automake, that would be
>> ideal.
>
> I was interested sometime ago and produced something minimal that works
> for me but dropped the ball due to not being able to conjure the
> testcases for the fix...
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2014-12/msg00000.html
>
>
> - Yanko
>
>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760679
>
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