Re: libxc/Makefile's VPATH issue

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>]

Keir Fraser, le Mon 09 Jun 2008 11:54:08 +0100, a écrit :
> On 9/6/08 11:42, "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> > c/s 17138 introduced the use of VPATH instead of symlinks to access to
> > libelf files.  However, that not only provides access to .c files, but
> > also to .o files.  That means that if one compiles the hypervisor before
> > the tools, libxenguest.a contains .o files intended to the hypervisor,
> > containing references to printk, etc. and thus is unusable.
> 
> You mean c/s 16891?

Oops, yes, sorry, I was looking in my own tree.

> > Is there a good reason against reverting to symlinks, or maybe another
> > way to achieve the same?
> 
> vpath %.c ../../xen/common/libelf
> 
> Perhaps?

It does work indeed.  I guess we already depend on possibly GNU-only
features anyway?

Samuel