[libvirt PATCH] docs: compiling: mention build dir

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Fri Jan 29 13:29:39 UTC 2021


Our docs have not been fully updated to reflect the separate
build directory.

Suggested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>
---
 docs/compiling.html.in | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/compiling.html.in b/docs/compiling.html.in
index c2c9d9f0ed..df6074780f 100644
--- a/docs/compiling.html.in
+++ b/docs/compiling.html.in
@@ -98,15 +98,17 @@ $ ninja -C build
     <pre>
 $ su -
 # service libvirtd stop  (or systemctl stop libvirtd.service)
-# /home/to/your/checkout/src/libvirtd
+# /home/to/your/checkout/build/src/libvirtd
     </pre>
 
     <p>
-      It is also possible to run virsh directly from the source tree
+      It is also possible to run virsh directly from the build tree
       using the ./run script (which sets some environment variables):
     </p>
 
     <pre>
+$ pwd
+/home/to/your/checkout/build
 $ ./run ./tools/virsh ....
     </pre>
   </body>
-- 
2.29.2




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