Re: [Vala] Vala autoconf macro

["Michel Salim" <michel sylvan gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Michael Terry <mike mterry name> wrote:
> Hello, all!
>
> I recently rewrote a little puzzle game [1] I maintain into Vala from
> C++.  I'm a big fan of Vala, so thanks!  The app is called gmult, and
> emulates the mpuz game found in emacs.
>
> I'm writing this list because I thought I'd share one of the packaging
> tricks I used.  I copied most of the Makefile.am magic from other Vala
> apps, but I did write a useful autoconf macro that tests for valac and
> its version.
>
> If you stick the following in acinclude.m4, you can use it in
> configure.ac (inspired by intltool.m4):
>
> dnl AC_PROG_VALAC([MINIMUM-VERSION])
> AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_VALAC], [
>
> AC_PATH_PROG([VALAC], [valac], [])
>
> USE_VALAC=true

Sounds like a good idea; an alternative that might be simpler is to
have vala ship a pkgconfig file. That way we can just reuse the
existing pkgconfig macros.

Jürg?

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Michel Salim
http://hircus.jaiku.com/