Distributed generated .c files require colord / packagekit even if not configured

[zdpo]

I tried to build simple-scan-3.17.2 on opensuse 13.2.
./autogen.sh produce no error - just asked to run make.
But make failed becuase of missing include colord.h...

Please add check to installation of colord-devel package to configure test...

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

This is due to autotools distributing the generated .c file that come from the .vala files. On my build machine I had colord installed so these were generated with that enabled.

I've never been able to find a good method of not distributing the .c files or making sure they are regenerated. I'll have to keep trying to find one...

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

As a workaround deleting src/simple_scan_vala.stamp will trigger a rebuild.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Also, running make clean will remove the .c files.

So you can do the following:
$ ./configure
$ make clean
$ make

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Upstream bug:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14796

[Pacho Ramos (pacho)]

Usually running touch over offending .c files can also make them to be regenerated (I think we have seen this problem recently with other package downstream and we solved it in that way)

[Philipp Wolfer (phw)]

Even when building from source it adds the dependency to packagekit-glib2.vapi even if packagekit is disabled. Same for colord.vapi

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Switched from autotools to Meson - this problem should no longer occur.

[Jan Steffens (heftig)]

Is this really "Released"? Stable 3.24.0 still suffers from this bug, and I can't recompile the Vala code because of:

ui.vala:456.42-456.45: error: Argument 1: Cannot pass value to reference or output parameter
                    device_model.remove (iter);
                                         ^^^^
ui.vala:469.34-469.37: error: Argument 1: Cannot pass value to reference or output parameter
            device_model.remove (iter);
                                 ^^^^

which I assume is because the code is incompatible with Vala 0.36.

3.24.0 doesn't have the mentioned Meson support, either.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Simple Scan 3.25.1 uses Meson (3.24 will continue to use autotools).

See bug 1686083 for the issue with Vala 0.36 binding changes.