On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:22:06AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 14.12.06 18:11 >>>
> >On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:23:32PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >
> >> As before, the file added to tools/check/ must be given exec permission.
> >>
> >> Now using the approach suggested by Christoph Egger
> >> <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Index: 2006-12-11/tools/Makefile
> >> ===================================================================
> >> --- 2006-12-11.orig/tools/Makefile 2006-12-04 08:49:57.000000000 +0100
> >> +++ 2006-12-11/tools/Makefile 2006-12-14 14:25:02.000000000 +0100
> >> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ all: check
> >> $(MAKE) ioemu
> >>
> >> .PHONY: install
> >> -install: check
> >> +install: check_install
> >> @set -e; for subdir in $(SUBDIRS-y); do \
> >> $(MAKE) -C $$subdir $@; \
> >> done
> >> @@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ distclean: clean
> >> check:
> >> $(MAKE) -C check
> >>
> >> +.PHONY: check_install
> >> +check_install: check
> >> + $(MAKE) -C check install
> >> +
> >> .PHONY: check_clean
> >> check_clean:
> >> $(MAKE) -C check clean
> >
> >What's this change for? In tools/check/Makefile, it says not to run make -C
> >check install as part of make install.
>
> Hmm, I didn't realize this was intentionally not used. For me it simply means
> I
> can't run Xen tools directly out of the build area (since install.sh does
> nothing
> but copying things around, there's little point in using it for other than an
> install into the default (root=/) location. But obviously, when run directly
> out
> of the build area, the install checks will never get done and I'm ending up
> with a cryptic error message again.
Just run make -C tools/check install.
> As I can't think of a smarter way, I think taking this change will depend on
> whether it's acceptable to the majority to require all install prerequisites
> to
> be present on build-only machines,
That's certainly not acceptable. We won't have the bridge-utils on our build
boxes, for instance.
> and whether it is a reasonable
> expectation that at some future point it'll be possible to run multiple Xen
> versions on the same machine (and, as per above comment, directly out of
> the build area).
Why do you want to run them straight out of the build area? Just do
export DISTDIR=/usr/local/xen-3.0.3
make dist
and you've got everything that you need, right there. You'll probably have to
fix a few hardcoded paths, but that should be easy.
Ewan.
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