Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/3] move libxc and xenstore public headers to include subdir

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("[PATCH 0/3] move libxc and xenstore public 
> headers to include subdir"):
> > this patch series separates out the public libxc and xenstore headers
> > that are supposed to be usable by external programs, such as QEMU, from
> > the private internal headers.
> > 
> > The public headers are moved to a subdirectory called "include".
> > 
> > The headers move requires changes to a few Makefiles, one of which is
> > qemu-xen-traditional's (the patch to qemu-xen-traditional is sent
> > separately).
> > 
> > The series in its current form is not bisectable.
> 
> I don't think this is the right way to do this.
> 
> It seems to me that, instead, these headers are (or should be) put
> into dist/install/, and anything out-of-tree which needs them should
> be looking for them there.

I don't feel strongly about this (I never feel strongly about build
systems). However I would like to point out that this is about the forth
different approach that I developed and sent out to build QEMU on ARM
with Xen support. It would be nice if there wasn't a fifth.

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