On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 16:05:18 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > We use a similar trick to libvirt to allow external C programs that > use libguestfs to be compiled against the built (but not installed) > libguestfs with: > > ../libguestfs/run ./configure > make
Or even more easily, covering also the OCaml usage:
$ /path/to/libguestfs/run bash -i
$ ./configure
$ make
$ [etc]
> What actually happens is we have a second pkg-config file
> (lib/local/libguestfs.pc) which points to the locally built
> libguestfs. The ./run script sets up PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to this
> directory. Assuming that ./configure is using pkg-config/pkgconf and
> not some other half-baked solution it will pick up the libguestfs.pc
> file from here which will set CFLAGS and LIBS appropriately.
> ---
Seems OK, just one thing:
> +Name: libguestfs
> +Version: @VERSION@
> +Description: libguestfs library for accessing and modifying VM images
> +Requires:
> +Cflags: -I${includedir}
> +Libs: -L${libdir} -lguestfs @LIBS@
Not sure where this $LIBS variable comes from, as it is empty (even the
installed libguestfs.pc has this).
I'd drop it from this patch, and I will send a patch for the installed
libguestfs.pc.in.
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Pino Toscano
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