On 11 April 2012 23:34, Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 04/11/2012 11:20 AM, Marc-Antoine Perennou wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> Hello Marc-Antoine, thanks for the report.
>
> > bug#10894 introduced a regression in commit
> > 51f61dfb1e861062aaa1d73fab71278c85fe0594
> > <
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=51f61dfb1e861062aaa1d73fab71278c85fe0594
> >
> >
> > Formerly it was using the whole content of the *_SOURCES variable, which
> > was causing problems with mixed C/vala projects, so you only grepped
> *.vala
> > files from it.
> > Fact is that not all vala files ends with the .vala extension, some of
> them
> > end with the .vapi extension, and they are currently ignored.
> >
> Ouch :-(  This shows once again that our current testsuite coverage for the
> Vala support is inadequate (and that my knowledge of Vala is pitiful, but
> that was already waaay too clear I guess).
>
> > Attached patch fixes this issue
> >
> > I can also write & provide a test
> >
> That would be great, thank you!  But if you do so, could you please try
> to keep your test as short as possible (< 15 lines), to avoid issues with
> copyright assignments?
>
> I know this sounds like an absurd request, but the fact is: I'd like to
> apply your fix and add your new test ASAP (for an "emergency" 1.11.5
> release), and that would basically become impossible if we were to wait
> for a copyright assignment form to fly over the Atlantic :-(  But if
> your change is small and simple enough, the FSF allows it to be applied
> without a copyright disclaimer, so we could have the new release in
> a couple of days.
>
> Thanks again for your help,
>  Stefano
>

Attached is a patch which adds a minimal vapi file to the vala2 test which
should be ok regarding copyrights.
Vapi files are actually wrappers for vala to understand C headers.

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