Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] tools: split xl into a separate directory

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 03:54:02PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [PATCH 0/2] tools: split xl into a separate directory"):
> > Basically this needs to be folded into xl/Makefile:
> > 
> > +# libxenlight should be built before building xl
> > +.PHONY: libxl
> > +libxl:
> > +       $(MAKE) -C $(XEN_ROOT)/tools/libxl
> > +$(XL_OBJS): libxl
> 
> OMG.
> 
> > This is in line with how we do things: libxl/Makefile has something
> > similar to build libacpi.
> > 
> > Please let me know if you have objection to this.
> 
> I hadn't noticed that libxl/Makefile had that.
> 
> No, this is entirely wrong.  You will end up running make in
> tools/libxl twice simultaneously.

Libacpi can be built in different directories by setting ACPI_BUILD_DIR.

Libxl doesn't have that, yet. We can do that, too. But it might involve
quite a bit of fiddling with libxl/Makefile.

Wei.

> 
> Ian.

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