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+# Everyone needs vala-native and targets need vala, too,
+# because that is where target builds look for .vapi files.
+#
+VALADEPENDS = ""
+VALADEPENDS_class-target = "vala"
+DEPENDS_append = " vala-native ${VALADEPENDS}"
+
+# Our patched version of Vala looks in STAGING_DATADIR for .vapi files
+export STAGING_DATADIR
+# Upstream Vala >= 0.11 looks in XDG_DATA_DIRS for .vapi files
+export XDG_DATA_DIRS = "${STAGING_DATADIR}"
+
+# Package additional files
+FILES_${PN}-dev += "\
+    ${datadir}/vala/vapi/*.vapi \
+    ${datadir}/vala/vapi/*.deps \
+    ${datadir}/gir-1.0 \
+"