From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9f44-0005C4-Nx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:04:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9f3x-0004Sk-OW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:04:08 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:43395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9f3x-0004SO-GD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:04:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4F6758ED.7010806@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:03:57 -0600 From: Eric Blake MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1332168446-9322-1-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com> <4F674D6E.10708@codemonkey.ws> <20120319153140.GD9375@otherpad.lan.raisama.net> <4F6751EE.2090001@codemonkey.ws> <20120319154319.GF9375@otherpad.lan.raisama.net> In-Reply-To: <20120319154319.GF9375@otherpad.lan.raisama.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig457DEC7C57279515B363F890" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eduardo Habkost Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig457DEC7C57279515B363F890 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/19/2012 09:43 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote: >>> A --package-name option could be provided to make it easier to overri= de >>> 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. Actually, the idea of an explicit --package-name is not that bad: the upstream automake list recently had a discussion on whether it should be possible to alter the PACKAGE_NAME at configure or even make time, and the conclusion was that it might be a useful idea, but we'd need to pursue getting the GNU Coding Standards, autoconf, and automake all updated to make it a reality, as it is not necessarily a trivial task from the outset. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-02/msg00034.html > If you suggest making it configurable using a variable on the 'make' > command-line it would be OK, but I kind of hoped that no modern softwar= e > project would ever require packagers to use configure-by-sed methods to= > set build parameters. Obviously, since qemu doesn't use automake, we aren't quite in the same position as that automake thread; and even though we are not bound by GNU Coding Standards, it might be interesting to see what happens on that front, to make sure we are not proposing an incompatible solution. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig457DEC7C57279515B363F890 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJPZ1jtAAoJEKeha0olJ0NquScIAJssYinGfK8rAqaR+WccjA1f zMmm5R2tPRKirKMUE75R1bOiuQm2t8C2VWM7tk0nfy9eCsNwfB+8oY8v0zkyQPKZ PcRGfQLQQCgY238Mr+6xdA1aNfhhUkeNfAokVninn8IADRbphwGJh6NRS5htlvVj Bi9pyln+iplfrX5ZfEctmnKpj3IUmGWUIuLSrQw5YtKj3C5VrOcZu1+/CplEvyDX Rg3gS2OAL5PgkihIeMk7hnHss8LGXP2mxQTX+EdttKFFfOCb6UD0Yiyn4yI0ltuK kerkbM10WsGl+xAPqEfZ0whznbBDUhm5AqTzFbkKHfdWVnHqiBG+HHrwbkeWvOc= =AMaJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig457DEC7C57279515B363F890--