Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC] qemu: build adjustments

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 09.11.10 at 19:12, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan Beulich writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC] qemu: build adjustments"):
>> QEMU by itself can be built outside of its source directory. With the
>> qemu repository being separate from the hypervisor/tools one it seems
>> to make sense to make use of this feature, but doing so requires a
>> couple of adjustments to the Xen changes to it. Basically, if
>> CONFIG_QEMU is found to indicate an existing directory, this directory
>> will be used rather than cloning the git repo into the build tree.
>> 
>> The patch contains QEMU and tools/stubdom changes together for the
>> moment (with QEMU supposed to be residing in qemu/). For applying
>> this would need to be split.
> 
> I like the idea, in principle.  But:
> 
> Before your patch, it was possible to build a standalone qemu tree by
> doing this or the moral equivalent:
>    XEN_ROOT=~/work/xen-unstable-tools.hg ./xen-setup
>    make -j4
> 
> Now the xen-setup fails:
>    ./xen-setup: line 21: /configure: No such file or directory

Oh, indeed - I failed to add fallbacks in two places. I'll submit a
second version shortly.

Jan


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