Thanks to Dan's recent work in libvirt.git, it is much easier to develop against uninstalled libvirt. Mention how.
* README: More details. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> --- README | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index ad50828..df1de59 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -21,6 +21,21 @@ or to install as non-root python setup.py build python setup.py install --user +If python-nose is installed, you can test the package with + + python setup.py test + +A makefile shim is provided so that you can do + + make && make check + +rather than directly invoking setup.py. + +As of libvirt 1.2.6, it is possible to develop against an uninstalled +libvirt.git checkout, by setting some environment variables: + + export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/libvirt/git/src/ + export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/libvirt/git/src/.libs/ Patches for this code should be sent to the main libvirt development mailing list -- 1.9.3 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
