Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [PATCH RFC] tools: rework uninstall target

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:08:36AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 07:04 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > I wrote this patch because the recent change set that switch to install
> > tools in /usr/local by default exposes a problem (at least for me) that,
> > if dev changes --prefix in ./configure without cleaning up previous
> > installation, the loader might be picking up the wrong libs.
> 
> Right, this is a bit of a pain during the transition. Not much can be
> done though I think :-( I've mentioned it in a mail here and it is
> referenced in the draft release notes, which I've just added a few more
> words to http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.3_Release_Notes
> 
> > Another problem (for me) with the "install to /usr/local" changeset is
> > that I have to manually run ldconfig to point ld.so to the right
> > position. It might be worth adding this to Makefile as well?
> 
> I added it to http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen_From_Source.
> 

Could add similar things in Xen's README as well?


Wei.

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