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From: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
Subject: Re: --enable-xsm ?
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:53:20 -0500
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To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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On 01/15/15 04:40, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 13:39 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 09:06:37AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 13.01.15 at 21:43, <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
>>>> On 01/13/2015 02:27 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>>>> I was wondering if there would be any plans for configure.ac
>>>>> (or the m4 scripts) to have an --enable-xsm which would set
>>>>> XSM_ENABLE (or FLASK_ENABLE) to true?
>>>>>
>>>>> Right now by default to build with XSM one has to manually change
>>>>> the Config.mk ENABLE_XSM option to 'y'.

This is not strictly true.  I see the option as XSM_ENABLE.  And

docs/misc/xsm-flask.txt

correctly states that a .config file can specify this.  Also you can add
XSM_ENABLE=y to the make command line.

And in bash, export XSM_ENABLE=y works. All of these work without
a manual change to Config.mk

    -Don Slutz


>>>> Is the hypervisor build allowed to depend on having run ./configure
>>>> now?  I think this was the reason why config.mk is being used.
>>> Correct - configury only controls the tools (and stubdom iirc).
>> Ah that is right. Should we expand on that then? Make the hypervisor
>> build with different configure options?
> The hypervisor maintainers have indicated repeatedly that they do not
> want building the hypervisor to require running configure. Which makes
> sense, since Xen has no dependency on the userspace environment.
>
> Ian.
>
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