From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] Config.mk: replace dependency to genpath with actual target Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:53:47 +0100 Message-ID: <1410972827.23505.49.camel@citrix.com> References: <1406538316-29087-1-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <1406538316-29087-3-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <20140917100207.GA18753@aepfle.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140917100207.GA18753@aepfle.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Olaf Hering Cc: Keir Fraser , Stefano Stabellini , Tim Deegan , Ian Jackson , xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jan Beulich , Samuel Thibault List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 12:02 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > A question related to the change below: > > How are the make variables supposed to be changed? Right now this can be > done either with rerunning configure (untested by me) and by calling > something like 'make SBINDIR=/x/y XEN_RUN_DIR=/a/b' (used as testcase). > > I think we should arrange the code such that a new configure run is > required to change their value. I think we've been moving (and should be moving) in the direction of configuring these things via configure, so that would be ok by me. (I'm assuming these don't affect the hypervisor build/install, which isn't configure driven)