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. > > Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; > --- > setup.py | 12 +++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py > index 17b4722..566c210 100755 > --- a/setup.py > +++ b/setup.py > @@ -109,7 +109,17 @@ class my_build(build): > """Check with pkg-config that libvirt is present and extract > the API XML file paths we need from it""" > > - libvirt_api = get_pkgconfig_data(["--variable", "libvirt_api"], "libvirt") > + libvirt_api = os.getenv("LIBVIRT_API_PATH") > + > + if libvirt_api: > + if not libvirt_api.endswith("-api.xml"): > + raise ValueError("Invalid path '%s' for API XML" % libvirt_api) > + if not os.path.exists(libvirt_api): > + raise ValueError("API XML '%s' does not exist, " > + "have you built libvirt?" % libvirt_api) > + else: > + libvirt_api = get_pkgconfig_data(["--variable", "libvirt_api"], > + "libvirt") > > offset = libvirt_api.index("-api.xml") > libvirt_qemu_api = libvirt_api[0:offset] + "-qemu-api.xml" 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