[libvirt] FreeBSD Port, update to 0.9.2 compile error

Jason Helfman jhelfman at e-e.com
Thu Jun 9 17:04:22 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 03:12:42PM +0200, Jiri Denemark thus spake:
>On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 20:55:01 +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>> > >   another way would be to launch python directly giving the path to the
>> > > python script, this is likely to solve the issue there.
>>
>>   That IMHO avoids the problem completely and I doubt anybody would
>> complain
>
>I agree, and we already use that in one place in python/Makefile.am:
>
>    $(PYTHON) $(srcdir)/$(GENERATE) $(PYTHON)
>
>> we should even be able to detect at configure and take specific
>> paths if people want to use a non-system python binary by extending
>>
>> paphio:~/libvirt -> ./configure --help | grep python
>>   --with-python           Build python bindings [default=yes]
>>
>>  to take a path
>
>No extension needed, it already supports that (although it's not advertised
>anywhere). One can use the following forms
>
>    --with-python
>    --with-python=/usr/local
>    --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python
>    PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python --with-python
>
>Jirka
>

Sounds good to me. How would the python script in question support this?

Thanks,
Jason

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