Re: [Vala] Patching valac source for a Launchpad PPA

[Michael Wild <themiwi users sourceforge net>]

On 27. Apr, 2010, at 24:14 , Darren Warner wrote:

> Apologies, this is a Launchpad question, but it is quite vala-specific.
>
> I'm uploading a patched valac to my own launchpad PPA. The problem I'm coming across is that the timestamps 
> of the generated/included .c files must be later than their corresponding .vala files, otherwise the build 
> process tries to invoke valac, which of course is not there in a PPA/pbuilder environment.
>
> I've tried not using quilt to maintain patches and simply made the changes to the source tree, but both 
> .vala and .c files still get updated timestamps.
>
> I'm thinking this must be a problem maintainers of vala packages have already come across and solved, so 
> any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> -Darren

How about first touching all .c and .h files before invoking make in your build rule?

Michael