From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Egger Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: use PREFIX when building upstream qemu Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:41:29 +0100 Message-ID: <50C9E919.3080405@gmx.de> References: <508916B3.2030403@amd.com> <20617.13045.486553.172990@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <1355395238.10554.71.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <50C9E49C.8050809@gmx.de> <20681.58690.426312.833615@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20681.58690.426312.833615@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: Ian Campbell , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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- 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