Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: adjust --datadir option passed to qemu-upstream's configure script

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Beulich writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: adjust --datadir option passed 
to qemu-upstream's configure script"):
> Passing $(SHAREDIR)/qemu-xen isn't compatible with the way
> os-posix.c:os_find_datadir() works. While one would generally expect
> that function to honour the --datadir configure option, fixing this is
> quite a bit more involved than simply adjusting the configure options
> to match the function's behavior (in that, for an installed binary, it
> looks in $bindir/../share/qemu). Afaict, so far this can have worked
> only by virtue of what CONFIG_QEMU_DATADIR points to being populated
> due to (presumably) some other qemu instance being installed on
> people's systems (but being absent when running qemu-system-i386 from
> the dist/ portion of the build tree).

Anthony, Stefano, do you have an opinion ?

Ian.

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