bug#44011: Improvements to contrib/README

2020-10-23 Thread Karl Berry
I attach a patch relative to current git that improves contrib/README. Thanks, pushed. Sorry for the delay.

bug#13002: Dealing with C intermediate files

2020-10-23 Thread Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for Automake
I've had a look at the patch now, and found and fixed one bug. However, an issue comes up for VPATH builds that needs a more thorough fix: C files generated from Vala sources are shipped by "make dist" and hence end up in srcdir, but in a VPATH build with a Vala compiler, they will be in builddir.

bug#44129: Patch to improve valac version detection

2020-10-23 Thread Karl Berry
I simply failed to update the test; I'm glad it was simple. All the tests pass for me now, and I pushed your patch, and am closing this bug. Thanks!

bug#44129: Patch to improve valac version detection

2020-10-23 Thread Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for Automake
Sorry, I simply failed to update the test; I noticed a failure message, and didn't understand it. Simply lack of effort on my part, apologies. I attach an updated patch, which now also patches the test to account for the new mode of operation (checking --api-version not --version) and updated erro

bug#44129: Patch to improve valac version detection

2020-10-23 Thread Karl Berry
$ valac --api-version 0.48 Thanks Reuben. Unfortunately, when I install this patch, the t/vala-configure.sh test fails for me with: configure: WARNING: Vala compiler not found or too old configure: WARNING: you will not be able to compile Vala source files I'm using CentOS 7, which r