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

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wei Liu writes ("Re: [PATCH 0/2] tools: split xl into a separate directory"):
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 03:54:02PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 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.

Aha.  So it's built multiple times (presumably with different build
options, etc).

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

This is not the right approach for libxl.

Rather the parent Makefile should have a dependency, so that the make
in `tools' knows to complete libxl before starting xl.

Ian.

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