On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 01:35:54PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 02/03/17 13:29, Wei Liu wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 06:13:16AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: > >> When configuring the build of qemu the configure script is building > >> various test programs to determine the exact version of libxencontrol. > >> > >> Instead of a try and error approach needing updates for nearly each > >> new version of Xen just provide xencontrol.pc to be used via > >> pkg-config. > >> > >> In the end we need two different variants of that file: one for the > >> target system where eventually someone wants to build qemu, and one > >> for the local system to be used for building qemu as part of the Xen > >> build process. > >> > >> The local variant is created in a dedicated directory in order to be > >> able to collect more pkg-config files used for building tools there. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> > > > > Please consider writing a follow-up patch to at least move > > libxenlight.pc and libxlutil.pc there, too. :-) > > I'm planning to do this and more: > > - add *.pc for all other Xen libraries > - add the library dependencies to the *.pc files > - use the pkg-config files for the Xen build process in order to get > rid of the lib specific variables in tools/Rules.mk > > When this has been done qemu can be switched to use pkg-config files > from Xen 4.9 on. After this (when Xen is using the enhanced qemu > version) we can drop passing the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to qemu's > configure. >
Great! Looking forward to more patches! > > Juergen > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
