Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 02/13] Config.mk: replace dependency to genpath with actual target

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 17, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 12:02 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > A question related to the change below:
> > 
> > How are the make variables supposed to be changed? Right now this can be
> > done either with rerunning configure (untested by me) and by calling
> > something like 'make SBINDIR=/x/y XEN_RUN_DIR=/a/b' (used as testcase).
> > 
> > I think we should arrange the code such that a new configure run is
> > required to change their value.
> 
> I think we've been moving (and should be moving) in the direction of
> configuring these things via configure, so that would be ok by me. (I'm
> assuming these don't affect the hypervisor build/install, which isn't
> configure driven)

Unfortunately, m4/paths.m4 shows that configure will change just prefix
and libdir. Other parts of config/Paths.mk.in are kind of hardcoded.
I will see how to implement a knob for at least CONFIG_DIR and INITD_DIR.

Olaf

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