Improve docs about compiling libvirt from GIT

Add a note about setting the LIBVIRT_DRIVER_DIR env variable,
explain --system and fix example to use --disable-werror
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Daniel P. Berrange 2012-05-24 16:07:58 +01:00
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<p>
The libvirt build process uses GNU autotools, so after obtaining a
checkout it is necessary to generate the configure script and Makefile.in
templates using the <code>autogen.sh</code> command, passing the extra
arguments as for configure. As an example, to do a complete build and
install it into your home directory run:
templates using the <code>autogen.sh</code> command. By default when
the <code>configure</code> script is run from within a GIT checkout, it
will turn on -Werror for builds. This can be disabled with --disable-werror,
but this is not recommended. To build &amp; install libvirt to your home
directory the following commands can be run:
</p>
<pre>
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr --enable-compile-warnings=error
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ <b>sudo</b> make install</pre>
<p>
Be aware though, that binaries built with a custom prefix will not
interoperate with OS vendor provided binaries, since the UNIX socket
paths will all be different. To produce a build that is compatible
with normal OS vendor prefixes, use
</p>
<pre>
$ ./autogen.sh --system
$ make
</pre>
<p>
When doing this for day-to-day development purposes, it is recommended
not to install over the OS vendor provided binaries. Instead simply
run libvirt directly from the source tree. For example to run
a privileged libvirtd instance
</p>
<pre>
$ su -
# service libvirtd stop (or systemctl stop libvirtd.service)
# /home/to/your/checkout/daemon/libvirtd
</pre>
<p>
It is also possible to run virsh directly from the source tree
</p>
<pre>
$ ./tools/virsh ....
</pre>
<p>
A normal configuration of libvirt will build hypervisor drivers
as loadable modules. When running from a non-installed source
tree, libvirtd will attempt to find the modules from the same
source tree. If this is not possible though, you can explicitly
set <code>LIBVIRT_DRIVER_DIR=/path/to/source/tree/src/.libs</code>
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