From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: Re: tidy up requested Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:06:14 +1000 Message-ID: <1123830375.28457.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200508102321.49800.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> <42FA8923.5040503@us.ibm.com> <42FB3835.1070206@diku.dk> <20050811122025.GA26444@underhill.no-ip.org> <42FB46BD.5090206@diku.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42FB46BD.5090206@diku.dk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jacob Gorm Hansen Cc: xen-devel , Sean Dague List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 14:38 +0200, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote: > Sean Dague wrote: > > > > :vm-tools> ./configure --with-xen-source=../wherever/you/like > > > > No need for root, no need to install xen first. > > Didn't work for me when I tried, plus I would like to avoid the (slow, > messy) configure step if I can. I can't complain (though I did) if the > authors of vm-tools feel the need to use autoconf, but I would be > against it spreading to the rest of the xen tools. I agree with not using autoconf, however, you should definitely use "./configure". Just write it as a simple shell script, as various projects such as qemu and nfsim do. Cheers, Rusty. -- A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman