On 24/02/17 17:06, Doug Goldstein wrote: > On 2/22/17 1:53 AM, Juergen Gross wrote: >> On 20/02/17 16:19, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> On 20/02/17 14:43, Juergen Gross wrote: >>>> On 20/02/17 15:31, Wei Liu wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:47:07AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >>>>>> There have been reports that Fedora 25 uses /run instead of /var/run. >>>>>> >>>>>> Add a --with-rundir option ito configure to be able to specify that >>>>> I've read this thread but I'm not sure if I need to take any action or >>>>> all the comments addressed -- especially the part about autoconf. >>>> Andrew, are you fine with my answer regarding autoconf? Or do you have >>>> some information regarding --runstatedir which could help? >>> Oh sorry. Didn't realise I was blocking here. I have no specific >>> information, other than the quick search I did. >>> >>> Can't the future problem be worked around just with if autoconf version >>> < 2.70 ? >> I don't think it is possible to add configure options other than >> --disable-*, --enable-*, --with-* or --without-* by other means than >> patching general.m4 of autoconf. I don't think we want to do that. >> >> So the possibilities are: >> >> 1. don't support /run instead of /var/run via configure >> 2. patch autoconf to support --runstatedir >> 3. take this patch adding support via --with-rundir and possibly >> switch over to --runstatedir when a new autoconf version is >> available >> >> I'm in favor of (3.). >> >> >> Juergen > FWIW, many distros have already pulled the patch into their autoconf so > its available so you wouldn't really have to do anything. > > Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759647 > Ubuntu: 16.04 and newer have it > Gentoo: no link handy but I know its there
openSUSE: not available I don't think its a good idea to rely on _all_ relevant distributions having done the backport. Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
