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and subject line Bug#1061107: fixed in vala 0.56.18-3
has caused the Debian Bug report #1061107,
regarding vapigen: Make it possible to cross-compile libraries with Vala
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Package: valac
Version: 0.56.14-1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Now that we can cross-compile GObject-Introspection data, many GNOME
packages that could not not previously be cross-compiled become available
for cross-compiling. However, some of the libraries we would like to be
able to cross-compile (for example ibus and libportal) have Vala bindings,
generated from the library's own GIR XML via the vapigen tool.
At the moment, during a cross-build, vapigen will generally be a
host-architecture binary which cannot always be run on the build
architecture, causing builds to fail.
Ideally, during a cross-build, we would like to run a build-architecture
vapigen binary, but configure it (perhaps via command-line options or
environment variables) so that it will find host-architecture GIR XML
in /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/gir-1.0. The search paths need to
be architecture-specific in order to find GLib-2.0.gir without having
libgirepository1.0-dev installed, because libgirepository1.0-dev
is not cross-compile-friendly. I don't think there are any other
architecture-dependent paths involved, but the Vala maintainers would
know what this tool does better than I do.
As a proof-of-concept, I was able to work around this in libportal by
generating some local wrappers and overrides; but ideally this would
be something that could be done centrally, with most of the work in the
vala package.
I'll follow up with more concrete suggestions, but I wanted to open the
bug with a relatively solution-neutral problem statement rather than
jumping directly to a solution.
This is related to #1060904, but perhaps more of a downstream issue;
some solutions to it would benefit from #1060904, but that isn't a
mandatory dependency.
Thanks,
smcv
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Source: vala
Source-Version: 0.56.18-3
Done: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
vala, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Simon McVittie <[email protected]> (supplier of updated vala package)
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:18:47 +0100
Source: vala
Architecture: source
Version: 0.56.18-3
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Closes: 1061107
Changes:
vala (0.56.18-3) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload
* d/rules: Parameterize the vala major/minor version number
* d/rules: Generate cross valac wrapper from a template
* d/*.links: Create cross valac symlinks declaratively
* Use absolute path to run valac in the cross wrapper.
If the cross wrapper for valac has been found in /usr/bin, it
seems less surprising if it runs the corresponding system copy of
valac, bypassing any possible locally-installed valac that might
conceivably be the same major version number.
* Move vapigen, vapigen-0.56 to valac-bin, add required Breaks/Replaces
* d/rules: Generate a ${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE}-vapigen which searches
appropriate directories.
For example, this means we find GLib-2.0.gir in
/usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/gir-1.0. (Closes: #1061107)
* Generate a ${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE}-vala.ini to use valac, vapigen wrappers.
This allows packages with a Meson build system to opt-in to using the
host architecture valac and vapigen during cross-builds. Ideally this
would be done more centrally, in debhelper or `meson env2mfile`, but
we should make the infrastructure available first.
* d/control, d/rules: Use build-architecture valac if cross-compiling.
This allows vala itself to be cross-compiled, as long as the
pkg.vala.nographviz build-profile is used (or #983886 is fixed)
and a native build for the build architecture has been done first.
* d/copyright: Don't quote the FSF's former postal address here
* Standards-Version: 4.7.2 (no changes required)
* Initially upload to experimental, since the cross-related changes
are somewhat intrusive
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