From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] tools: remove or disable old/useless/unused/unmainted stuff Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:29:39 +0100 Message-ID: <51F92D63.2000802@citrix.com> References: <1375283736.7382.100.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1375283736.7382.100.camel@kazak.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 Campbell Cc: Ian Jackson , Keir Fraser , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 31/07/13 16:15, Ian Campbell wrote: > depends on "autoconf: regenerate configure scripts with 4.4 version" > > This series removes some of the really old deadwood from the tools build > and makes some other things which are on their way out configurable at > build time with a default depending on how far down the slope I judge > them to be. > > * nuke in tree copy of libaio > * nuke obsolete tools: xsview, miniterm, lomount & sv > * make xend optional, still on by default (for now!) > * disable blktap1 by default (needs qemu patch, just posted) > * some cleanup of .*ignore > > Ian. In what way is lomount obsolete? XenServer relies on it and I am unaware of any alternative. Other than that, I am very happy about the other nuked items which allows me to clean up some of our local hacks to the upstream build system. ~Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel