coverage: vala support failing for VPATH from-scratch builds

* tests/vala-vpath.test: New test, xfailing.
* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
* THANKS: Update.

From a report by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.

Related to automake bug#8753.

5 files changed, 70 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5d0eda1f2..f7514d170 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2011-09-02 Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+	coverage: vala support failing for VPATH from-scratch builds
+	* tests/vala-vpath.test: New test, xfailing.
+	* tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update.
+	* THANKS: Update.
+	From a report by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
+	Related to automake bug#8753.
+
 2011-09-01  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
 	docs: report few more automake parsing limitations
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index d91c5bb2c..f83e1fce4 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ William S Fulton	wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk
 Yann Droneaud		ydroneaud@meuh.eu.org
 Younes Younes		younes@cs.tu-berlin.de
 Zack Weinberg		zack@codesourcery.com
+Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl
 Zoltan Rado		z.rado@chello.hu
 
 ;; Local Variables:
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
index 61014608a..4f8e0f605 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.am
+++ b/tests/Makefile.am
@@ -836,6 +836,7 @@ vala2.test \
 vala3.test \
 vala4.test \
 vala5.test \
+vala-vpath.test \
 vars.test \
 vars3.test \
 vartar.test \
diff --git a/tests/Makefile.in b/tests/Makefile.in
index 108672d3f..32e32976b 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile.in
+++ b/tests/Makefile.in
@@ -1114,6 +1114,7 @@ vala2.test \
 vala3.test \
 vala4.test \
 vala5.test \
+vala-vpath.test \
 vars.test \
 vars3.test \
 vartar.test \
diff --git a/tests/vala-vpath.test b/tests/vala-vpath.test
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..98e0f4333
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vala-vpath.test
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Test to make sure vala support handles from-scratch VPATH builds.
+# See automake bug#8753.
+
+required="valac"
+. ./defs || Exit 1
+
+set -e
+
+mkdir src
+
+cat >> configure.in << 'END'
+AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([hello.vala])
+AC_PROG_CC
+AM_PROG_VALAC([0.7])
+AC_OUTPUT
+END
+
+
+cat > Makefile.am <<'END'
+bin_PROGRAMS = foo
+foo_SOURCES = hello.vala
+END
+
+cat > hello.vala <<'END'
+void main ()
+{
+  stdout.printf ("foo\n");
+  return 0;
+}
+END
+
+$ACLOCAL  || framework_failure_ "aclocal error"
+$AUTOCONF || framework_failure_ "autoconf error"
+$AUTOMAKE || framework_failure_ "automake error"
+
+mkdir build
+cd build
+../configure || Exit 77
+$MAKE
+$MAKE distcheck
+
+: