Re: [PATCH 1 of 1 v2] tools: honour --libdir when it is passed to ./configure

[Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 23:51 +0100, Matt Wilson wrote:
>>   SHAREDIR    ?= $(PREFIX)/share
>>   DOCDIR      ?= $(SHAREDIR)/doc/xen
>> @@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ endef
>>
>>   ifneq ($(EXTRA_PREFIX),)
>>   EXTRA_INCLUDES += $(EXTRA_PREFIX)/include
>> -EXTRA_LIB += $(EXTRA_PREFIX)/$(LIBLEAFDIR)
>> +EXTRA_LIB += $(EXTRA_PREFIX)/$(shell basename $(LIBDIR))
>
> since we are sort of reverting 16950:0faf620bc749 here this could in
> theory $(EXTRA_PREFIX)/$(LIBDIR)? That doesn't remove the need to
> include Tools.mk though. :-/
>
> Does anyone know if this EXTRA_PREFIX stuff is intended to be used for
> hypervisor and other non-tools builds? If not then we could consider
> pushing it down a level.
>
> In the tools case I think we already have a way to inject arbitrary -L
> and -I options -- so maybe this can just go away?
>
> CCing Ian (who wrote 16950) and Olaf, whose been doing stuff in this
> area.

EXTRA_LIB was keep to maintain backward compatibility, but the use of 
the APPEND_ and PREPEND_ flags should provide the same functionality 
with more flexibility (see 24141:078392e5078d).

I don't think the hypervisor needs any special libs to build, at least I 
never had to pass any extra libs to build it on the several not so 
common systems I've build Xen on (NetBSD and uClibc).