Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/19/2012 10:31 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:14:54AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 03/19/2012 09:47 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>> This series change the Makefile to use $(confdir) instead of
>>> $(sysconfdir)/qemu, and allows the full config path configurable instead of
>>> forcing the use of $(sysconfdir)/qemu.
>>
>> What's the use case here?  Is this to allow $(sysconfdir)/qemu-kvm?
>
> Yes. On RHEL we usually package qemu-kvm only, but we try to avoid
> conflicts in case other flavors of qemu be provided by third-parties
> (read: EPEL).
>
>>
>> I'd rather we use a PACKAGE_NAME define to do that and have qemu-kvm
>> change PACKAGE_NAME.
>
> I tried to mimic --mandir, --datadir, --docdir, and all other options
> that expect full paths instead of trying to building one itself.
>
> A --package-name option could be provided to make it easier to override
> all the defaults at the same time, but I don't see why not include an
> option to define the full path for confdir, just like we allow for
> datadir, docdir, and mandir.

No, I'm not suggesting --package-name, I'm suggesting that qemu-kvm would carry 
a patch to configure that changed a fixed PACKAGE_NAME define.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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