On Friday 02 September 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On Friday 02 September 2011, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski wrote:
> > On 09/01/2011 09:35 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > > Hi Zbigniew, sorry for the shameful delay.
> > No problem. Autotools are great anyway :)
> >
> Glad to hear that :-)
> 
> > > I'm quite ignorant about vala and also its support in automake,
> > I think that the support is in general adequate -- systemd uses vala and 
> > in general things get build like they are supposed too.
> >
> Again, glad to hear that.
> 
> > > but I do
> > > think that VPATH builds are not really supported for vala.
> > So it seems.
> >
> I mean, they are supported for distributed tarball (and this is checked in
> the automake testsuite), but not for from-scratch builds, like e.g. from a
> fresh git checkout.
> 
> > > Anyway, it would be nice to at least expose the problem in the Automake
> > > testsuite, even if only as an XFAIL; do you have a minimal use case
> > > exposing the issue?
> > I've taken the hello world example from vala tutorial and wrapped it with
> > Makefile.am and configure.ac.
> > 
> > It builds fine locally, and fails when build from an external directory:
> > 
> > /tmp/build % ~/src/vala_autotools_test/configure
> > ...
> > /tmp/build % make
> > make: *** No rule to make target 
> > `/home/zbyszek/src/vala_autotools_test/hello_vala.stamp', needed by 
> > `/home/zbyszek/src/vala_autotools_test/src/hello.c'.  Stop.
> > 
> > The example is attached. Three files: configure.ac and Makefile.am go in 
> > the root directory of the source tree, hello.vala goes into src/.
> >
> Thanks; I can reproduce the error, and I've managed to reduce your minimal
> test case even more.  I've applied the attached patch to the 'maint' branch
> in the automake repository.
>
But I forgot to list the new test in XFAIL_TESTS :-(

I've pushed the attached patch to remedy to this oversight.

Sorry for the noise,
  Stefano