Re: [Vala] M4 Macros for vala+valadoc when automake integration is unavailable

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 10:09 +0200, Ali Sabil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That looks great. But you probably want to check how I autotooled
> libcore[1]. The implementation I have is based on the vala-support[2]
> script by Mathias Hasselmann, and doesn't have the limitation you
> have.

Good! I am looking to move to your solution. Does the script work with
maintainer-mode though?

Regards,

Yu
> [1] bzr branch lp:libcore
> [2] http://taschenorakel.de/mathias/2007/08/27/automake-support-vala/
>
> --
> Ali
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com> wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I would like to share these m4 macros for vala/valadoc with you. They
> > helped me to keep the 'Makefile.am's neat and clean. The approach is
> > copied from intltool, by substituting rules with @XXXX@ substitutions in
> > Makefile.am.
> >
> > vala.m4 provides helpers for invoking valac. This file is modified from
> > Mathias's original vala.m4.
> >
> > valadoc.m4 provides helpers for invoking valadoc and adds a
> > --enable-valadoc parameter to the configure script.
> >
> > Drop them into a toplevel sub-directory in your project
> > (namely ./autotools)
> >
> > Add three lines to configure.ac
> > AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([autotools])
> > AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([autotools])
> > AC_SUBST(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, "-I autotools")
> > # also modify aclocal in autogen.sh if applicable
> >
> > Then
> > VALA_PROG_VALAC(0.6.0)
> > VALA_PROG_VALADOC
> >
> > More information are in the m4 files. An example for using both together
> > is given in valadoc.m4.
> >
> > The limitation is that only one 'ultimate' target(ie, one .la file) per
> > source code directory can be built with the rules.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Yu
> >
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