[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Xen-devel] Hypervisor build can't work without `python` (Was: Re: Xen commit 9b0bc91b3 possibly removed too much info from README)



>>> On 17.04.19 at 16:51, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 02:44:21PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> Let Config.mk have:
>> 
>> -include config/basic_tools.mk
>> 
>> at the very beginning, with config/basic_tools.mk being created via
>> configure and containing the basic tool variables:
>> 
>> CC := gcc
>> AWK := awk
>> PYTHON := python3
>> ...
>> 
>> As Config.mk will set those variables with defualt values in case they
>> are empty all is fine then.
> 
> Frankly I'm not a big fan of this approach -- you can potentially get
> different toolchain depending on how you build stuff. I would rather
> just document that for hypervisor build either python is available or
> you should specify PYTHON= when invoking make.

+1

Jan



_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel

 


Rackspace

Lists.xenproject.org is hosted with RackSpace, monitoring our
servers 24x7x365 and backed by RackSpace's Fanatical Support®.