[libvirt] NOTE: building libvirt requires srcdir != builddir now

[Daniel Henrique Barboza]

Hi,

Aside from what Daniel already said I want to add that, at least in my 
environments, 'make install' fails if I attempt the following:

     mkdir build
     cd build
     ../autogen.sh --prefix=$PWD
     make
     make install

or

     mkdir build
     cd build
     ../autogen.sh --prefix=$PWD/..
     make
     make install


If I set up '--prefix' with a directory that's not a subdir of srcdir, 
it works.

I am not sure if setting prefix=srcdir was a good idea in the first 
place, but it was working for me in the old build setup and now it 
doesn't work anymore. Thus if anyone is having the same issue, try using 
a prefix that's not a subdir of 'srcdir'.



Thanks,


DHB


On 11/11/19 7:38 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> A quick heads up to people who are pulling latest libvirt this morning.
> 
> Late on friday we pushed the series from Pavel which mandates that libvirt
> does a VPATH build. ie you can't build directly in the source tree, you
> must have a separate build directory.
> 
> IOW, instead of doing
> 
>      ./autogen.sh
>      make
> 
> You must change to
> 
>     mkdir build
>     cd build
>     ../autogen.sh
>     make
> 
> "build" can be any directory you like, and doesn't have to be a subdir
> of the src checkout.
> 
> Most built files now live outside the srcdir - we only have autotools
> related artifacts  in srcdir now, and so the gitignore file is much
> simpler.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
>