On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:53 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:00:58PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > I recently submitting Deja-dup, a backup program written in Vala for > > > review at > > > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540761 > > > > > > Vala is described in more detail at http://live.gnome.org/Vala. Deja-dup > > > like many Vala programs include both the Vala source code and the C > > > "source code" to avoid a build time requirement of Vala and also because > > > Vala is still in a rapidly evolving stage. Do I need to build from the > > > original Vala source code or can I consider the machine generated C as > > > "source"? > > > You should be building from the vala source. > > > For rygel to date I've used the C as "source" unless I've needed to > > patch a bug or build issue with it when you then need to regenerate > > it. > > > Sounds like rygel should as well. That won't work. The upstream uses Vala git, which didn't allow recompiling rygel from the version of Vala in Fedora. > When in doubt, build from the source that upstream is going to be modifying, > fixing bugs in directly, etc. When in doubt, use the sources that upstream is providing as the sources to build from, in this case the C files rather than the Vala ones (even if both are actually in the tarball). -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
