Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] ioemu-remote: fix cross compilation.

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isaku Yamahata writes ("Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] 
ioemu-remote: fix cross compilation."):
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:39:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I think this is quite ugly really.  We're engaging in a war of
> > makefiles.  Why can't Rules.mk set the right version of install ?
> 
> Yes, it's ugly. How about the followings? Which do you prefer?
> One candidate is to modify ioemu-remote/Makefile, Makefile.target,
> another is for the xen-unstable. Making INSTALL overridable
> isn't intuit...

I meant that the xen-unstable tree should set INSTALL to the
cross-install wrapper.

> qemu-dm and qemu-dm-xen are the only commands in the xen source tree
> which is installed with strip option, "-s".

Presumably the xen-unstable tree calls $(CROSS_COMPILE)strip instead,
which works.  I agree that this is better but I don't want to have a
deviation from the upstream makefiles in qemu.

> Modifying PATH in tools/Makefile doesn't work because the install
> command is invoked via shell which resets PATH.

That can't be right.  Running something via a shell does not normally
reset the PATH.

Ian.

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