Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: provide xenlight.pc

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxl: provide xenlight.pc"):
> On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 14:32 +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > A pkg-config file for libxl. It also contains two variables
> > (xenfirmwaredir and libexec_bin) so that tools that are very keen on
> > knowing the locations of Xen binaries (say, libvirt) can use them to
> > determine the location of the binaries.
...
> This seems like a reasonable thing to provide and the manner which you
> do so seems sane. I've not actually read any pkg-config specs to check
> the content, but it looks plausible:

Thanks, Ian.  (I haven't checked the supplied .pc file.)

> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We ought to consider if there are any other libraries we should do this
> for, I think non-stable API ones like libxenctrl/guest should be
> explicitly excluded.

The obvious one is xenstore.  I'm not sure how much we want to
consider that to have a stable API.

Also, what about libxl users who want to use xentoollog ?

Ian.

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