From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jacob Gorm Hansen Subject: Re: tidy up requested Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:36:21 +0200 Message-ID: <42FB3835.1070206@diku.dk> References: <200508102321.49800.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> <42FA8923.5040503@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42FA8923.5040503@us.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Anthony Liguori Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Anthony Liguori wrote: > Perhaps now is an appropriate time to introduce two other things, a > PREFIX variable settable in the top-level Makefile and a pkg-config > scripts for xcs and the xenstore. Thoughts? Would that mean I would have to have the xen headers and libs installed (like in recent autoconf-using vmtools) to be able to compile these? I just spent the afternoon yesterday editing all the autoconf-cr*p out of vmtools, because I prefer to be able to compile everything from the xen tree without having to do a make install of xen first. If this is the case, please don't. I have Jamfiles for most of the core tools and vmtools for anyone who is interested. They support fast and clean builds to a separate build-directory (without fear of name-collisions), and they allow me to have as many xen-checkouts on my build machine as I want, without being root, without a separate configure step and resulting mess of autogenerated .h files, and without any 'make installs'. Best regards, Jacob