Hi Ralf, On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 20:42 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > I'm looking at adding per-target flag support for vala sources. > > Say I have baz.vala and want to create from that > foo-baz.c foo-baz.h > > in one valac invocation, as well as > bar-baz.c bar-baz.h > > in another 'valac -D BAR' invocation. Is there some flag I can pass to > valac that will use these output names for me? If yes, does it do so > without generating intermediate baz.c baz.h files or any other temporary > files that have a name which would conflict with parallel make -jN > execution?
valac does not currently support any transformation on the output names of the .c files. It's not as easy as a simple -o option because you have multiple input and output files per invocation in general (see below). If you think it would make sense to add a --suffix option or similar to valac, I could certainly take a look at it. > Also, I see that your vala compile passes all sources to valac. Is that > intentional (or just because that was good enough)? I.e., if you have > bin_PROGRAMS = foo > foo_SOURCES = a.c b.vala c.l d.java e.vala > > do you really want to invoke > valac -C a.c b.vala c.l d.java e.vala That was not intentional. valac won't mind unnecessary .c files but will reject files with other extensions. > rather than > valac -C b.vala e.vala This would be the correct commandline. > or even > valac -C b.vala > valac -C e.vala This would not work, valac requires all Vala source files of the same program / library on the same commandline. The reason is that the source files can depend on each other, but there is no header/include mechanism. > ? And if per-target flags are used with multiple input files, how would > I specify the renamed output files? We'd probably need to add a new commandline option to valac as suggested in the first paragraph. Thanks, Jürg _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list