From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Goldstein Subject: Re: [PATCH] build: add --with-rundir option to configure Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:01:31 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20170216074707.27135-1-jgross@suse.com> <20170220143145.mkstyadebue2bovy@citrix.com> <138d4c6a-ace9-1818-03b2-6a631bc6ceeb@suse.com> <96342cbd-ba1c-bb06-229a-5e03000571e3@suse.com> <20170222113728.jpphnsobzwapesdl@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1967786052164689685==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1chIJP-0003Ob-GI for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:01:39 +0000 Received: by mail-yb0-f193.google.com with SMTP id i66so937856yba.1 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:01:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20170222113728.jpphnsobzwapesdl@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Wei Liu , Juergen Gross Cc: Andrew Cooper , ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --===============1967786052164689685== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="D0Ui63VCFxNK5oS1BTa9Qhr74ebjETe9b" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --D0Ui63VCFxNK5oS1BTa9Qhr74ebjETe9b Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="5ipwej0WqbfOc4MQ53oRkI7qxU7GTpIqm"; protected-headers="v1" From: Doug Goldstein To: Wei Liu , Juergen Gross Cc: Andrew Cooper , ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] build: add --with-rundir option to configure References: <20170216074707.27135-1-jgross@suse.com> <20170220143145.mkstyadebue2bovy@citrix.com> <138d4c6a-ace9-1818-03b2-6a631bc6ceeb@suse.com> <96342cbd-ba1c-bb06-229a-5e03000571e3@suse.com> <20170222113728.jpphnsobzwapesdl@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: <20170222113728.jpphnsobzwapesdl@citrix.com> --5ipwej0WqbfOc4MQ53oRkI7qxU7GTpIqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2/22/17 5:37 AM, Wei Liu wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 08:53:24AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >> On 20/02/17 16:19, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> On 20/02/17 14:43, Juergen Gross wrote: >>>> On 20/02/17 15:31, Wei Liu wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:47:07AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >>>>>> There have been reports that Fedora 25 uses /run instead of /var/r= un. >>>>>> >>>>>> Add a --with-rundir option ito configure to be able to specify tha= t >>>>> I've read this thread but I'm not sure if I need to take any action= or >>>>> all the comments addressed -- especially the part about autoconf. >>>> Andrew, are you fine with my answer regarding autoconf? Or do you ha= ve >>>> some information regarding --runstatedir which could help? >>> >>> Oh sorry. Didn't realise I was blocking here. I have no specific >>> information, other than the quick search I did. >>> >>> Can't the future problem be worked around just with if autoconf versi= on >>> < 2.70 ? >> >> I don't think it is possible to add configure options other than >> --disable-*, --enable-*, --with-* or --without-* by other means than >> patching general.m4 of autoconf. I don't think we want to do that. >> >> So the possibilities are: >> >> 1. don't support /run instead of /var/run via configure >> 2. patch autoconf to support --runstatedir >> 3. take this patch adding support via --with-rundir and possibly >> switch over to --runstatedir when a new autoconf version is >> available >=20 > Option 3 but we need to have that for eternity. :-) >=20 > Wei. Cause --runstatedir will never rear its head.... I believe I proposed --runstatedir 3+ years ago (I can't recall how long ago) and the maintainers said go idea we'll do a quick release with that on top of 2.69 and then work on the upcoming big release. --=20 Doug Goldstein --5ipwej0WqbfOc4MQ53oRkI7qxU7GTpIqm-- --D0Ui63VCFxNK5oS1BTa9Qhr74ebjETe9b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJYsFjeXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRBNTM5MEQ2RTNFMTkyNzlCNzVDMzIwOTVB MkJDMDNEQzg3RUQxQkQ0AAoJEKK8A9yH7RvUgMYQAIBzHX9rJNvh1biD/rTjaQVQ Kkz0po782iARRzTGpVFSiJ7tl4M24c565pBHv8Wh9mjlOpZaCeX7xD448/2beFLm aJBzBBJIlURQ6viV7xpPdtbiqifq5C0cGWL5sw65XINoCug7Pw1IWeLe13i9rwdD zWijQyOdTcvnyFgoO/RMqgm+MibApAwwbjmvKZuY2pQAP+lx5YeT7/jhOBz+Q8l/ 0BLYqUAujgmfj+PG6iSdFLN1kGiD4gs3x0rwN5L7jy1aIrVKRKfolcu4SR67AFG3 34Vm/fZ93WwFcE75ye1ZopCHgJy34z6TtAZhk/7LpPajTw43cZ3WOee8SQ2ndkrV vSUxc/K/7MuGTMnVb6+6a4LFUztn6AL3xUkeoyzmL5d6XKXj5DakHS9YOxOntyej UYXLa3HkrKPT4UsKMCSyIe2FGMUX7jprGx+f4oQL1xa1n0/sVCX/nm7K1sULnWfz 9sZ19IXFOY6Ja0c6OVb4m/hK9Ql+LtZdVzdzKMa5T9pb7KxSYyPalUxJr0n5nLm2 rmweAsBtnjBx8ZV0IoMe0KZCwQ+0xZvW0Y3G2KJ+brqNGIq+CnzHYYo7ewaZTVI8 oK5E2qRX6utrT9hQRABTAciQJSdrHm5rDmBTpIHEXVrmoxy1teYBkk9AQn6inAMB AvLuVEU0OIFnjnkObMt0 =/11X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --D0Ui63VCFxNK5oS1BTa9Qhr74ebjETe9b-- --===============1967786052164689685== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX18KWGVuLWRldmVs IG1haWxpbmcgbGlzdApYZW4tZGV2ZWxAbGlzdHMueGVuLm9yZwpodHRwczovL2xpc3RzLnhlbi5v cmcveGVuLWRldmVsCg== --===============1967786052164689685==--