[virt-tools-list] [libvirt] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.3

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Jul 18 17:17:29 UTC 2012


On 07/17/2012 07:39 PM, Jason Helfman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed in virt-manager, it has an exec on /usr/bin/python. In FreeBSD,
> this is /usr/local/bin/python. Is there a way I can change this either
> through a configure flag at build time, or patch a Makefile?
> 

Not at the moment.

Hmm, the system python binary is under /usr/local? That doesn't seem right,
/usr/local is supposed to be where things go when a user installs things by
hand. For example none of the software the Fedora distributes put anything in
/usr/local, but by default ./configure && make install for most software roots
things under /usr/local.

If freebsd is really doing that, it would probably require some makefile and
configure tweaking to work on both platforms. Are you just trying to get
virt-manager working personally, or packaging it (whatever that entails) to be
distributed with freebsd?

> One more bit. NLS on FreeBSD is installed to /usr/local/share/locale, and
> noticed in the po/Makefile:
> 
> libdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib
> DATADIRNAME = lib
> itlocaledir = $(prefix)/$(DATADIRNAME)/locale
> 
> I was wondering what flag I could use to get NLS to go to
> /usr/local/share/locale and not /usr/local/lib/locale
> 
>   --bindir=DIR            user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
>   --sbindir=DIR           system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
>   --libexecdir=DIR        program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
>   --sysconfdir=DIR        read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
>   --sharedstatedir=DIR    modifiable architecture-independent data [PREFIX/com]
>   --localstatedir=DIR     modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
>   --libdir=DIR            object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
>   --includedir=DIR        C header files [PREFIX/include]
>   --oldincludedir=DIR     C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
>   --datarootdir=DIR       read-only arch.-independent data root [PREFIX/share]
>   --datadir=DIR           read-only architecture-independent data [DATAROOTDIR]
>   --infodir=DIR           info documentation [DATAROOTDIR/info]
>   --localedir=DIR         locale-dependent data [DATAROOTDIR/locale]
>   --mandir=DIR            man documentation [DATAROOTDIR/man]
>   --docdir=DIR            documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/virt-manager]
>   --htmldir=DIR           html documentation [DOCDIR]
>   --dvidir=DIR            dvi documentation [DOCDIR]
>   --pdfdir=DIR            pdf documentation [DOCDIR]
>   --psdir=DIR             ps documentation [DOCDIR]
>

I'm not entirely sure I follow, but I'd try playing around with --libdir or
--datadir.

- Cole

> Thanks,
> Jason
> 





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