Re: Using vala in GNOME

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 01 juillet 2008 à 10:49 +0200, Jürg Billeter a écrit :
> > and the build
> > system should rebuild the C code when the .vala files have changed,
> > similar to how other generated files are handled.
> 
> This does not. Magic rules to rebuild stuff that is not supposed to
> change when you use a tarball often fail miserably when you use a patch
> system over the sources. This is why we set AM_MAINTAINER_MODE wherever
> possible.

It should certainly be possible to guard the valac calls with

	if MAINTAINER_MODE

I'm not a huge fan of maintainer mode but it probably makes sense to use
it for valac rules to get the same behavior as with other generated
files.

Jürg