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vala command compiles files instead of running them

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: two <at> envs.net
Cc: 56467-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56467: vala command compiles files instead of running them
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 17:46:00 -0400

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld      9 Jul 15 19:18 vala -> vala-0.54
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld     10 Jul 15 19:18 vala-0.54 -> valac-0.54
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld     10 Jul 15 19:18 valac -> valac-0.54
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 nixbld nixbld 147248 Jul 15 19:18 valac-0.54
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld     12 Jul 15 19:18 valadoc -> valadoc-0.54
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 nixbld nixbld 451032 Jul 15 19:18 valadoc-0.54
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld     24 Jul 15 19:18 vala-gen-introspect -> vala-gen-introspect-0.54
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 nixbld nixbld   1067 Jul 15 19:18 vala-gen-introspect-0.54
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld     12 Jul 15 19:18 vapigen -> vapigen-0.54
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 nixbld nixbld 720128 Jul 15 19:18 vapigen-0.54
>>
>> If you read attentively, you'll see there's no proper 'vala' binary,
>> vala, vala-0.54 and valac are all symbolic links to valac-0.54, which is
>> the compiler.
>>
>> Perhaps upstream changed the behavior?  Or it could be that they use
>> arg0 (the program name) to infer different behaviors, which gets mangled
>> by our wrappers.
>
> I just confirmed the later in #vala on the gnome IRC server.  Let's see
> what we can do.

Simple deleting the problematic wrap phase seems a good enough solution,
done in commit 154d270012.

I've also taken the opportunity to upgrade the package to version 0.56.2
and fixed a small usability issue (it would require the user to have
'cc' on their PATH).

Enjoy,

Maxim

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