[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] tools: install under /usr/local by default.
This is the defacto (or FHS mandated?) standard location for software built from source, in order to avoid clashing with packaged software which is installed under /usr/bin etc. I think there is benefit in having Xen's install behave more like the majority of other OSS software out there. The major downside here is in the transition from 4.2 to 4.3 where people who have built from source will innevitably discover breakage because 4.3 no longer overwrites stuff in /usr like it used to so they pickup old stale bits from /usr instead of new stuff from /usr/local. Packages will use ./configure --prefix=/usr or whatever helper macro their package manager gives them. I have confirmed that doing this results in the same list of installed files as before this patch was applied. Note that this does not currently affect docs or stubdoms at the moment, so they still end up under /usr. There are proposals to use configure here too at which point I would propose a similar patch and these would also move as expected (depending on the sequencing I may end folding that into this patch) The hypervisor remains in /boot/ and there is no intention to move it. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/configure | 2 -- tools/configure.ac | 1 - 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/configure b/tools/configure index f9d1925..463f79d 100755 --- a/tools/configure +++ b/tools/configure @@ -558,7 +558,6 @@ PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' PACKAGE_URL='http://www.xen.org/' ac_unique_file="libxl/libxl.c" -ac_default_prefix=/usr # Factoring default headers for most tests. ac_includes_default="\ #include <stdio.h> @@ -2145,7 +2144,6 @@ ac_config_files="$ac_config_files ../config/Tools.mk" ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers config.h" - ac_aux_dir= for ac_dir in . "$srcdir"/.; do if test -f "$ac_dir/install-sh"; then diff --git a/tools/configure.ac b/tools/configure.ac index 586313d..ccb2ae4 100644 --- a/tools/configure.ac +++ b/tools/configure.ac @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ AC_INIT([Xen Hypervisor], m4_esyscmd([../version.sh ../xen/Makefile]), AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([libxl/libxl.c]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([../config/Tools.mk]) AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h]) -AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT([/usr]) AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.]) # Check if CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LIBS, CPPFLAGS or CPP is set and print a warning -- 1.7.2.5 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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