[libvirt] [libvirt-python PATCH] setup: Make libvirt API XML path configurable

[Eric Blake]

Revisiting an older thread

On 11/26/2013 07:38 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:14:36AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:58:25AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>>> Adding a support for LIBVIRT_API_PATH evironment variable, which can
>>> control where the script should look for the 'libvirt-api.xml' file.
>>> This allows building libvirt-python against different libvirt than the
>>> one installed in the system.  This may be used for example in autotest
>>> or by packagers without the need to install libvirt into the system.
>>>

>>> -        libvirt_api = get_pkgconfig_data(["--variable", "libvirt_api"], "libvirt")
>>> +        libvirt_api = os.getenv("LIBVIRT_API_PATH")
>>> +

>>
>> NACK, setting pkg-config already takes care of this. See the
>> build-many.sh scrpit attached to this mail which demonstrates
>> use of PKG_CONFIG_PATH to build against every version of libvirt
>> back to 0.9.11
>>
> 
> This still means you have to configure libvirt with different prefix,
> install it and then you can use PKG_CONFIG_PATH.  This variable (which
> is unused if unset) makes it easier to use in case you have it built
> with default prefix etc.  It would help me a lot, but if everyone else
> is OK with installing libvirt in order to build python bindings just
> to test something, I'll keep this in my git.

I'm still interested in the ability to test libvirt-python against an
uninstalled libvirt tree.  Should we revisit this patch, or something
like it?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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