From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] Config.mk: replace dependency to genpath with actual target
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:09:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140918080932.GA5049@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410972827.23505.49.camel@citrix.com>
On Wed, Sep 17, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 12:02 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > A question related to the change below:
> >
> > How are the make variables supposed to be changed? Right now this can be
> > done either with rerunning configure (untested by me) and by calling
> > something like 'make SBINDIR=/x/y XEN_RUN_DIR=/a/b' (used as testcase).
> >
> > I think we should arrange the code such that a new configure run is
> > required to change their value.
>
> I think we've been moving (and should be moving) in the direction of
> configuring these things via configure, so that would be ok by me. (I'm
> assuming these don't affect the hypervisor build/install, which isn't
> configure driven)
Unfortunately, m4/paths.m4 shows that configure will change just prefix
and libdir. Other parts of config/Paths.mk.in are kind of hardcoded.
I will see how to implement a knob for at least CONFIG_DIR and INITD_DIR.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-18 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-28 9:05 [PATCH 00/13 v2] tools changes to honor --prefix= Olaf Hering
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 01/13] Config.mk: move directory list into BUILD_MAKE_VARS Olaf Hering
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 02/13] Config.mk: replace dependency to genpath with actual target Olaf Hering
2014-08-26 20:00 ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-27 8:36 ` Olaf Hering
2014-08-28 17:34 ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-29 6:33 ` Olaf Hering
2014-09-03 10:28 ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-03 10:43 ` Olaf Hering
2014-09-17 10:02 ` Olaf Hering
2014-09-17 16:53 ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-18 8:09 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2014-09-18 17:44 ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-19 6:55 ` Olaf Hering
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 03/13] Config.mk: add new macro buildmakevars2header Olaf Hering
2014-08-26 20:02 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 04/13] tools/libxl: use buildmakevars2header to create _paths.h Olaf Hering
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 05/13] tools/libxc: provide variable paths to libxc Olaf Hering
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 06/13] tools/libxc: use XEN_RUN_DIR for SUSPEND_LOCK_FILE Olaf Hering
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 07/13] tools/pygrub: store kernels in /var/run/xen/pygrub Olaf Hering
2014-08-26 20:04 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 08/13] tools/hotplug: use XEN_SCRIPT_DIR instead of hardcoded path Olaf Hering
2014-08-26 20:07 ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-27 8:42 ` Olaf Hering
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 09/13] tools/hotplug: create XEN_RUN_DIR at runtime Olaf Hering
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 10/13] tools/hotplug: create XEN_LOCK_DIR " Olaf Hering
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 11/13] tools/hotplug: use XEN_LOCK_DIR instead of hardcoded path Olaf Hering
2014-08-26 20:08 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 12/13] tools/examples: remove obsolete install targets Olaf Hering
2014-07-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 13/13] remove obsolete SUBSYS_DIR variable Olaf Hering
2014-08-26 20:08 ` Ian Campbell
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