bug#12540: Usage of srcdir when valac is generating a header file

2012-10-02 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Thanks Nick for chiming in. Your explanation is basically right: Automake ought to place generated-but-distributed files in the source directory rather than in the build directory, for two major reasons: 1. as you've noted, putting such files in builddir could cause inconsistencies in gene

bug#12540: Usage of srcdir when valac is generating a header file

2012-10-01 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2012-09-29 19:32 +0200, Vivien Malerba wrote: > I'm working on the Libgda project, which includes Vala source code. I use > the Autotools to generate the Makefiles and I've noticed that during the > conversion of vala code to C an H code a .stamp file is generated (from > what I understand, that

bug#12540: Usage of srcdir when valac is generating a header file

2012-09-29 Thread Vivien Malerba
Hi! I'm working on the Libgda project, which includes Vala source code. I use the Autotools to generate the Makefiles and I've noticed that during the conversion of vala code to C an H code a .stamp file is generated (from what I understand, that timestamped file is then a dependency for all the V