Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 19/46] Add configure --with-initd-dir=DIR

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 14:05 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 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.

"They" here would be both, since both cases would need to deal with this
regardless of who they are.

The important bit is "if we think that they are already dealing with
this" where "this" is "variation in initscript install dir between
distros". I don't know if that is the case. It depends on what the norm
among autoconf using projects is. TBH I would have expected there to be
a standard macro for this, if that's not the case then either projects
ignore this or they are all hand coding their own detection.

> 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.

Excellent.

Have you raised this series with Konrad for a release ack (I can't
remember if I mentioned this already).

Ian.


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