[Vala] Compiling vala 0.10 on macosx

[Anatol Pomozov <anatol pomozov gmail com>]

Hi,

I am trying to compile vala-0.10 on mac 10.6 (snow leopard).

valac itself compiles and seems work fine, but 'make test' is failing:

1) One of the failures is "xargs no such argument -r" comes from
tests/testrunner.sh
line
if $VALAC $VALAFLAGS -o test$EXEEXT $(echo $PACKAGES | xargs -n 1 -r echo -n
" --pkg") main.vala &>log; then

Indeed, according to http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?xargs argument
"-r" is a GNU extension and FreeBSD/Mac does not have it. If we just remove
this option most of the tests are green, except...


2) Except 6 dbus tests that fail with following message:
** CRITICAL **: file /Users/anatol/sources/vala/tests/_test/main.c: line
20160: uncaught error: Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id:
Unable to load /var/lib/dbus/machine-id: Failed to open file
'/var/lib/dbus/machine-id': No such file or directory (g-file-error-quark,
4)
aborting...
dbus.async.server.check: line 4: 98103 Trace/BPT trap          ./test
/dbus/async/server
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or
kill -l [sigspec]
  /dbus/signals/server:                                                FAIL
Failed to start message bus: launchd's environment variable
DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET is empty, but should contain a socket path.

EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon


I am not sure where it comes from, but there is no such
file /var/lib/dbus/machine-id on my computer, I
have /opt/local/var/lib/dbus/machine-id though.

$ sudo ls -l /opt/local/var/lib/dbus/machine-id
-rw-r--r--  2 root  admin  33 Sep 18 07:03
/opt/local/var/lib/dbus/machine-id