[Libguestfs] [PATCH v2 4/5] v2v:tests: use fake virtio-win drivers

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 06:16:18PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 03:53:24PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I'm just testing patches 1-3, and if they pass I will push them.
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 04:50:35PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > > +fake_virtio_win_dir = fake-virtio-win
> > > +FAKE_VIRTIO_WIN = $(wildcard $(fake_virtio_win_dir)/*/*/*/*)
> > 
> > Why the fake_virtio_win_dir variable?  Unfortunately automake treats
> > variables that have '*dir' in the name specially, but in this case I
> > don't think you intended that.
> 
> Absolutely not.  I'm basically uninitiated in auto-foo and had no idea
> this could mean anything special to automake; I just needed a simple
> make variable.  I've checked that it propagated as I expected into
> Makefile.in and then into Makefile, and that looked like enough to me.
> 
> BTW patch 1 introduces fake_virt_tools_dir which probably has the same
> concern, doesn't it?

Yes I think it possibly does.

I hate autotools too, but the alternatives are worse.

I will push 4 & 5 shortly, and will then take a closer look at whether
the _dir variable is a problem.

Thanks,

Rich.

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