Re: [libvirt] [libvirt-python PATCH] setup: Make libvirt API XML path configurable

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:14:36AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:58:25AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: >> Adding a support for LIBVIRT_API_PATH evironment variable, which can >> control where the script should look for the 'libvirt-api.xml' file. >> This allows building libvirt-python against different libvirt than the >> one installed in the system. This may be used for example in autotest >> or by packagers without the need to install libvirt into the system. >>

>> - libvirt_api = get_pkgconfig_data(["--variable", "libvirt_api"], "libvirt") >> + libvirt_api = os.getenv("LIBVIRT_API_PATH") >> +

> > NACK, setting pkg-config already takes care of this. See the > build-many.sh scrpit attached to this mail which demonstrates > use of PKG_CONFIG_PATH to build against every version of libvirt > back to 0.9.11 > This still means you have to configure libvirt with different prefix, install it and then you can use PKG_CONFIG_PATH. This variable (which is unused if unset) makes it easier to use in case you have it built with default prefix etc. It would help me a lot, but if everyone else is OK with installing libvirt in order to build python bindings just to test something, I'll keep this in my git.