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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure |
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Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:13:22 +0100 |
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Il 19/03/2012 16:43, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto:
> > No, I'm not suggesting --package-name, I'm suggesting that qemu-kvm
> > would carry a patch to configure that changed a fixed PACKAGE_NAME
> > define.
>
> Are you really suggesting that forcing downstream to carry a patch is
> better than having a configure option?
Not downstream as in RHEL; downstream as in qemu-kvm which is a fork anyway.
> If you suggest making it configurable using a variable on the 'make'
> command-line it would be OK, but I kind of hoped that no modern software
> project would ever require packagers to use configure-by-sed methods to
> set build parameters.
I think the package name is a pretty special case. Even with autotools,
it's pretty much the only thing that requires configure-by-sed to change it.
Paolo
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] configure: make full config dir path configurable, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] configure: make full config dir path configurable, Eduardo Habkost, 2012/03/19
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Makefile: use $(confdir) instead of hardcoding $(sysconfdir)/qemu, Eduardo Habkost, 2012/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure, Eduardo Habkost, 2012/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure, Anthony Liguori, 2012/03/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure, Eduardo Habkost, 2012/03/19