On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 17:52 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 12:11 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote: > > I would rephrase this as "valac as a build dependency for gnome" > > > > as valac is like yacc/bison/flex in that there is no runtime dependency > > and only people developing or compiling from git will need it (tarballs > > and distributed source will contain the generated c files so wont be > > needed there) > > If people can't hack from tarballs, then it's useless. I already > complained to Zeeshan about that, though I'm not sure whether it's > because of the code in Rygel's makefiles, or automake's vala support. > > Distributors will want to be able to apply patches to tarballs, and have > the changes automatically rebuilt (even if that means having the vala > pre-processor installed in the buildroots).
If you enable maintainer-mode, this should not be an issue. It should behave exactly the same as with .c files generated by bison and flex. Jürg _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list