From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Hering Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/46] Add configure --with-initd-dir=DIR Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:05:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20140930120513.GA15029@aepfle.de> References: <1411390835-7348-1-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <1411390835-7348-20-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <1411402936.26552.28.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> <20140924121123.GA22619@aepfle.de> <1411992795.2907.6.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1411992795.2907.6.camel@citrix.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 Campbell Cc: Keir Fraser , David Scott , Stefano Stabellini , George Dunlap , Tim Deegan , Ian Jackson , xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jan Beulich , Samuel Thibault List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Mon, Sep 29, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 14:11 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > > Are you saying the detection should be removed, and configure --opt=dir > > has to be specified on Fedora or BSD? > It's something we could consider if we think that they are already > dealing with this (perhaps automatically) for the majority of things > which they package. "they" as in packagers at RHAT is different from people who compile xen on their on. Today everyone has to pass at least --libdir= for 64bit builds. If the 4.5 release notes state clearly that building the tools slightly changed compared to 4.4 I'm fine with removing the detection. I plan to add documentation for configure to the README and the Wiki, once my prefix series goes into 4.5. Olaf