Re: valadoc (from vala-0.56.18nb2) fails to build docs for gnome-calculator-45.0.2nb21

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 08:01:37AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> with current pksrc on NetBSD/amd64 -current I see:
> 
> ===> Building for gnome-calculator-45.0.2nb21
> ninja: Entering directory `output'
> [1/5] Generating doc/libgcalc_valadocs with a custom command
> FAILED: [code=267] doc/GCalc-2 
> /usr/pkg/bin/valadoc --doclet=devhelp --force --package-name=GCalc-2 --package-version=45.0.2 --vapidir=/usr/pkgobj/math/gnome-calculator/work/gnome-calculator-45.0.2/gcalc --vapidir=/usr/pkgobj/math/gnome-calculator/work/gnome-calculator-45.0.2/output/gcalc --vapidir=/usr/pkgobj/math/gnome-calculator/work/gnome-calculator-45.0.2/output/libmpfr --pkg=glib-2.0 --pkg=gio-2.0 --pkg=gee-0.8 --vapidir=/usr/pkgobj/math/gnome-calculator/work/gnome-calculator-45.0.2/vapi --pkg=mpc --pkg=mpfr --pkg=mpfrg --directory=doc ../gcalc/gcalc-assign.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-calculator.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-constant.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-division.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-equation.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-equation-manager.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-error-result.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-expression.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-expression-container.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-expression-hash-map.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-acos.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-acosh.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-asin.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-asinh.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-atan.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-atanh.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-cos.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-cosh.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-exp.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-log.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-sin.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-sinh.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-sqrt.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-tan.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-function-tanh.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-group.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-hashable.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-assign.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-binary-operator.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-constant.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-constant-complex.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-constant-number.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-constant-vector.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-division.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-equation.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-equation-manager.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-error-result.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-expression.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-function.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-group.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-minus.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-multiply.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-operator.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-parameter.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-plus.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-polynomial.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-pow.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-result.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-term.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-math-variable.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-minus.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-multiply.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-parameter.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-parser.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-plus.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-polynomial.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-pow.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-result.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-solver.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-term.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-units.vala ../gcalc/gcalc-variable.vala
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix/debug that?

Stupid me - just finding the proper dir and running the command manually
gives me a segfault, it is calling strlen() on an invalid string pointer.

Martin