On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 09:54 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 14:33 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > > > My proposal is to enable this behaviour in the default jhbuildrc, > > so > > that all GNOME projects automatically build in a separate root. > > This > > change should have no, or minimal impact on the subset of the > > moduleset that is covered by Continuous; it may require fixing the > > build of various modules in the gnome-apps or gnome-world > > modulesets. > > The major upsides would be that: > +1, I've been wanting to do this for a while. > > There is a problem though, in that Automake's vala support is pretty > broken for git builds where builddir != srcdir, hence all (well, > virtually all) vala projects only support builddir != srcdir when > building from tarballs. Sometimes the only way to fix builddir != > srcdir issues is to introduce broken nonsensical changes to the > Automake file [1]. So when you make this change, you should do a > clean > build of all the modules and add exceptions for all the modules that > break, with the expectation that most Vala modules will be broken. > (You > were probably planning to do this anyway, so just pointing it out.) > > If anyone is interested in fixing this in Automake, that would be > ideal.
I was interested sometime ago and produced something minimal that works for me but dropped the ball due to not being able to conjure the testcases for the fix... http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2014-12/msg00000.html - Yanko > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760679 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
