[debbugs-tracker] bug#8753: closed (unable to build VALA project out-of-tree)

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> unable to build VALA project out-of-tree
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> Sat, 28 May 2011 01:08:30 +0300
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> Automake generates rules for VALA files which try to create C output
> in the source directory. This is pretty strange, but anyway the
> build doesn't succeed even if the source directory is writable.
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> quoting Andrey Borzenkov in 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2010-11/msg00036.html:
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> 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:
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> {pts/0}% LC_ALL=C make
> make  all-am
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bor/build/systemd'
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target
> `/home/bor/src/systemd/systemadm_vala.stamp', needed by
> `/home/bor/src/systemd/src/systemadm.c'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bor/build/systemd'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
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> Looking at Makefile.in, generated by automake, I cannot understand how
> it is supposed to work:
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> $(srcdir)/src/systemadm.c: $(srcdir)/systemadm_vala.stamp
>         @if test -f $@; then :; else \
>           rm -f $(srcdir)/systemadm_vala.stamp; \
>           $(am__cd) $(srcdir) && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) systemadm_vala.stamp; \
>         fi
> systemadm_vala.stamp: $(systemadm_SOURCES)
>         $(AM_V_VALAC)$(VALAC) $(systemadm_VALAFLAGS) $(VALAFLAGS) -C
> $(systemadm_SOURCES)
>         $(AM_V_at)touch $@
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> In out-of-tree build $(srcdir)/systemadm_vala.stamp is not the same as
> systemadm_vala.stamp, nor can it be. VPATH search does not apply here,
> because path does not yet exist; so when it is rebuilt, file name is
> used verbatim.
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> Andrey didn't get a definite reply, but the problem seems to be still present.
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> Zbyszek
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> Re: bug#8753: unable to build VALA project out-of-tree
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> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:50:58 +0100
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> On 01/08/2012 12:54 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
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> > Attached is what I'll pushed to maint in 72 hours, if there is no objection.
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> No objection has been advanced; I've thus pushed the patch and closed this
> bug report.
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> Thanks,
>   Stefano
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