[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen 4.1.1 packaging enhancement

[Thomas Goirand]

On 08/18/2011 06:39 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> The point is to use $(OCAML_DLL_DIR) from /usr/share/ocaml/ocamlvars.mk,
>> which dh_install can't use. But it's wrong as well, best would be to use
>> "ocamlfind install". I'll try working on that.
> 
> Does OCAML_DDL_DIR need plumbing into a (potentially new) upstream
> configuration option so that the "make -C tools" Just Works? Or does
> "ocamlfind install" already just work (I thought upstream was using it
> already though).

As much as I understand, this is a Debian thing, so it can't go upstream.

> e.g. add to tools/Makefile:
> 	IOEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS ?=
> and make the above xen-setup invocation:
> 	$(QEMU_ROOT)/xen-setup $(IOEMU_CONFIGURE_CROSS) $(IOEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS)
> and getting that patch upstream would allow you to define
> IOEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS in the packaging files instead of having to
> patch.
> 
> Ian.

Can you take care of doing that upstream for the next Xen release?

Thomas