Changeset e34c9a40 for general/prog

Timestamp:

10/11/2023 04:20:41 PM (8 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.1, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

e0b726d

Parents:

418edc0

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (10/11/2023 04:14:19 PM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (10/11/2023 04:20:41 PM)

Message:

vala: Fix a crash building NetworkManager

File:

• general/prog/vala.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

general/prog/vala.xml

@@ -95 +95 @@
     <title>Installation of Vala</title>
 
+    <!-- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vala/-/issues/1485 -->
+    <para>
+      At first, fix an issue causing <command>vapigen</command> to crash
+      building some packages (for example NetworkManager):
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -e "/next_pos =/s/$/ \
+        char buf[16]; \
+        Memory.copy (buf, next_pos, \
+        (end - next_pos >= buf.length ? buf.length - 1 : end - next_pos));/" \
+    -e 's/(string) next_pos/(string) buf/' \
+    -i vala/valamarkupreader.vala</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>
       Install <application>Vala</application> by running the following
@@ -101 +114 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
-make</userinput></screen>
+make bootstrap</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>
@@ -119 +132 @@
 
     <para>
+      <parameter>bootstrap</parameter>: This <command>make</command>
+      target forces the building system to build the package twice and use
+      the <command>vala</command> executable produced in the first build
+      to regenerate the <filename class="extension">.c</filename> files
+      from the <filename class="extension">.vala</filename> files if needed.
+      Since the <command>vala</command> executable is not installed yet,
+      this is necessary for really fixing the crash because the fix has
+      modified a <filename class="extension">.vala</filename> file.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
       <option>--disable-valadoc</option>: This option is
       required if <xref linkend="graphviz"/> is not installed.
     </para>
-
   </sect2>