[Fedora-xen] virt* source

[John Summerfield]

Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>> virtinst--devel/virtinst/ParaVirtGuest.py:        cmd = 
>>>> ["/usr/bin/virsh", "console", "%s" %(self.domain.ID(),)]
>>>>
>>>> Surely, the location of executable components should not be 
>>>> hard-coded in the source tree. I could live with it, grudgingly, if 
>>>> it was set at configure time.
>>>
>>> Agreed -- this is simply a bug in virt-manager.
>>
>> There are a few other places the virt* programs have fixed ideas about 
>> where stuff must be:
>> [summer at potoroo virt]$ find * -type f -exec grep -HE '/usr/(|s)bin' {} 
>> \; | grep -Ev '/usr/bin/(perl|python)'
> 
> By and large these are not bugs.  It would only be a bug if an installed 
> program contains a hard-coded path, and the path is not discovered by 
> (eg) ./configure, and there is no way around the hard-coded path at 
> runtime, and the user could conceivably want to use a different binary.
> 
> Rich.

Thanks Rich.
I am unfamiliar with the tools I need to put that statement to the test. 
INSTALL says to run ./configure, but there is no ./configure to run.

The website does say how to get the source with hg, and how to submit 
changes, but I can't see how to go from the checkout to building and 
installing.

Where is the documentation?

I do want to use alternative binaries (but then again I don't), but I do 
not wish to replace any standard part of F8.


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