Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/5] build: Export configure variables to hypervisor build

[Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/29/2012 06:44 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/5] build: Export configure 
> variables to hypervisor build"):
>> Perhaps we should just move the configure stuff up to the top level and
>> agree that it can control both tools and hypervisor configuration
>> options? I'm not sure why we would want to use different mechanisms for
>> the tools and h/v anyway.
> 
> I assume that the concern was that some people might object to the
> involvement of autoconf in building the hypervisor.  But no-one seems
> to be objecting very much.
> 
> If they do then the right thing is for configure to automatically
> honour settings like FLASK_ENABLE, not to have two separate options
> which cause the build to fail unless you set or clear both.
> 
> Ian.
> 

Actually, FLASK_ENABLE and XSM_ENABLE are not used in the tools build at all -
they are purely hypervisor build options. If a ./configure dependency isn't
wanted for the hypervisor build, reverting the removal of XSM_ENABLE from
Config.mk and eliminating the --enable-xsm option would also work.

-- 
Daniel De Graaf
National Security Agency

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