[Vala] [Genie] valac 0.8.x bug with const arrays?

[Arc Riley <arcriley gmail com>]

The following (pretty much a direct copy from http://live.gnome.org/Genie)
worked in 0.7.10 but not 0.8.0 or 0.8.1:

class Options : Object

  config : static string = "config.xml"
  version : static bool
  license : static bool

  const entries : array of OptionEntry = {
    { "config", 'c', OptionFlags.IN_MAIN,
      OptionArg.FILENAME, ref config,
      "Use alternative configuration", "FILE" },
    { "license", 'L', OptionFlags.IN_MAIN,
      OptionArg.NONE, ref license,
      "Print software license and exit", null },
    { "version", 'V', OptionFlags.IN_MAIN,
      OptionArg.NONE, ref version,
      "Print version information and exit", null },
    {null} }

init

  // parse args to options
  var options = new Options ()

  try
    var opt_context = new OptionContext ("")
    opt_context.set_help_enabled (true)
    opt_context.add_main_entries (options.entries, null)
    opt_context.parse (ref args)

  except e:OptionError
    return


The error that I get:

[1/4] valac: src/init.gs src/sockets.gs -> build/default/src/init.c
build/default/src/sockets.c
[2/4] cc: build/default/src/init.c -> build/default/src/init_1.o
default/src/init.c: In function ‘_vala_main’:
default/src/init.c:134: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘g_free’ discards
qualifiers from pointer target type
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmem.h:52: note: expected ‘gpointer’ but argument
is of type ‘const char *’
default/src/init.c:134: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘g_free’ discards
qualifiers from pointer target type
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmem.h:52: note: expected ‘gpointer’ but argument
is of type ‘const char *’
[3/4] cc: build/default/src/sockets.c -> build/default/src/sockets_1.o
[4/4] cc_link: build/default/src/init_1.o build/default/src/sockets_1.o ->
build/default/src/server
default/src/init_1.o: In function `_vala_main':
init.c:(.text+0x83): undefined reference to `OPTIONS_entries'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

As you can see, it compiles (with warnings, line 134 is "{ "config", 'c',
OptionFlags.IN_MAIN,") but fails on linking, apparently because
Options.entries didn't get into the object file.