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

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 16:58 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 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>

Applied, thanks.

> > 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 ?

I figured there was no point waiting for these, they can happen as and
when.

Ian.


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