Re: [PATCH] tools: use PREFIX when building upstream qemu

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger@gmx.de>]

On 13.12.12 15:25, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Christoph Egger writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: use PREFIX when building upstream qemu"):
>> On 13.12.12 11:40, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> Adding Christoph's new address, I guess this is a thing exposed on
>>> NetBSD?
>>
>> This is not specific to NetBSD. It is exposed everywhere where you
>> install Xen into a non-default directory by specifying the prefix
>> to configure.
>
> Indeed so.  I think a better way of putting it is that (IIRC) this bug
> in our build system was exposed routinely on NetBSD because the NetBSD
> ports collection always passes --prefix.  Is that right ?


Yes, this is right.

It is also routinely exposed when you choose a different prefix
for different xen versions for development purpose.
I use xen-<c/s> to switch forth and back between different
xen versions. This way I am always able to use a working version
and to test a new changeset.

Christoph