Re: [Vala] automake 1.11.1: unable to build vala project out-of-tree

[Abderrahim Kitouni <a kitouni gmail com>]

Hi,
                في س، 06-11-2010 عند 18:46 +0300 ، كتب Andrey Borzenkov:
> I'm trying to rebuild systemd
> (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd) from GIT. It is
> using several programs built using vala; in-tree build is OK,
> out-of-tree build fails:
Automake assumes the .c files generated by vala are distributed with the
source, and this isn't true when building from git. A solution is to do
an in-tree build, make distclean, and re-run your out-of-tree build. The
problem is you have to do this dance every time a vala file changes, so
in practice, out-of-tree build isn't supported for development, only for
release tarballs.

<wishlist>
A possible solution is to have automake (optionally) not distribute the
generated .c files (so they end up in the build dir rather than the
source dir) and that could be used in development if out-of-tree builds
are needed.
</wishlist>

HTH,
Abderrahim