Re: [Tracker] Meson build instructions for Tracker

[Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>]

2017-04-09 17:36 GMT+02:00 Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be>:
> On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 00:32 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
> > You are right, there is indeed an issue with valac and reproducible builds:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802528
> >
> > I guess this should be fixed in vala proper though.
>
> nod.
>
> > Personally, I'm not a huge fan of shipping pre-generated files in a
> > dist tarball. As soon you need to patch one of the source files you
> > need to regenerate it anyway. So it's better to do it always.
>
> Hmmrr. Patching .c files generated by valac sounds absurd. Is there ever
> a circumstance where you want to do that instead of patching the .vapi
> or .vala file? Because if you do, that sounds like a bug in valac
> instead.

Maybe just a misunderstanding. I wasn't suggesting to patch the
generated .c files. Of course one should apply such a change to the
.vala file. In such a case though, you need to rerun valac. And once
you setup debian/rules to do that, you can just do it always and
forget about the generated .c files.


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