bug#56467: closed (vala command compiles files instead of running them)

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> vala command compiles files instead of running them
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> Sat, 09 Jul 2022 14:38:48 -0000
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> Modoboa 1.14.0
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> the bin/vala-0.54 shell script executes bin/valac-0.54 which executes 
> bin/.valac-0.54-real.
> it should execute bin/.vala-0.54-real instead.
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> expected (was the case before guix's update):
> $ vala hello.vala
> Hello, World!
> $ ls
> hello.vala
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> actual:
> $ vala hello.vala
> $ ls 
> hello hello.vala
> $ ./hello
> Hello, World!
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> Re: bug#56467: vala command compiles files instead of running them
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi,
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> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Hi,
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> > Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
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> > [...]
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> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld      9 Jul 15 19:18 vala -> vala-0.54
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld     10 Jul 15 19:18 vala-0.54 -> valac-0.54
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld     10 Jul 15 19:18 valac -> valac-0.54
> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 nixbld nixbld 147248 Jul 15 19:18 valac-0.54
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld     12 Jul 15 19:18 valadoc -> valadoc-0.54
> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 nixbld nixbld 451032 Jul 15 19:18 valadoc-0.54
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld     24 Jul 15 19:18 vala-gen-introspect -> 
> >> vala-gen-introspect-0.54
> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 nixbld nixbld   1067 Jul 15 19:18 vala-gen-introspect-0.54
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 nixbld nixbld     12 Jul 15 19:18 vapigen -> vapigen-0.54
> >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 nixbld nixbld 720128 Jul 15 19:18 vapigen-0.54
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> >> If you read attentively, you'll see there's no proper 'vala' binary,
> >> vala, vala-0.54 and valac are all symbolic links to valac-0.54, which is
> >> the compiler.
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> >> Perhaps upstream changed the behavior?  Or it could be that they use
> >> arg0 (the program name) to infer different behaviors, which gets mangled
> >> by our wrappers.
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> > I just confirmed the later in #vala on the gnome IRC server.  Let's see
> > what we can do.
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> Simple deleting the problematic wrap phase seems a good enough solution,
> done in commit 154d270012.
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> I've also taken the opportunity to upgrade the package to version 0.56.2
> and fixed a small usability issue (it would require the user to have
> 'cc' on their PATH).
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> Enjoy,
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> Maxim
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