External/libvirt
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt.git synced 2025-01-18 10:35:20 +00:00
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

docs: compiling: Separate information on how to install libvirt and add disclaimer

Browse Source 
Create a section for instructions on how to install the built binaries
rather than mentioning it multiple times.

Add a note that installing over your distro-provided packages will most
likely break your instalation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Peter Krempa 2022-09-09 10:44:13 +02:00
parent 91284a2893
commit dae224fdb1
1 changed files with 31 additions and 13 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

44
docs/compiling.rst
View File

@ -52,23 +52,12 @@ To get the complete list of the options run the following command:
When you have determined which options you want to use (if any),
continue the process.
Note the use of **sudo** with the *ninja install* command below. Using
sudo is only required when installing to a location your user does not
have write access to. Installing to a system location is a good example
of this.
If you are installing to a location that your user *does* have write
access to, then you can instead run the *ninja install* command without
putting **sudo** before it.
::
$ meson build [possible options]
$ ninja -C build
$ sudo ninja -C build install
At this point you **may** have to run ldconfig or a similar utility to
update your list of installed shared libs.
The ``build`` directory now contains the built binaries.
Building from a GIT checkout
----------------------------
@ -85,7 +74,6 @@ can be run:
$ meson build --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ ninja -C build
$ sudo ninja -C build install
Be aware though, that binaries built with a custom prefix will not
interoperate with OS vendor provided binaries, since the UNIX socket
@ -97,6 +85,7 @@ normal OS vendor prefixes, use
$ meson build -Dsystem=true
$ ninja -C build
The ``build`` directory now contains the built binaries.
Running compiled binaries from build directory
----------------------------------------------
@ -120,3 +109,32 @@ It is also possible to run virsh directly from the build tree using the
$ pwd
/home/to/your/checkout/build
$ ./run ./tools/virsh ....
Installing compiled binaries
----------------------------
**Important:** Manual installation of libvirt is generally not recommended and
you should prefer installation from your operating system's package repository
or from manually built packages which are then installed using the package
manager. Overwriting an installation of libvirt from the package manager by a
manually compiled installation may not work properly.
Installing the compiled binaries into the appropriate location (based on
how the build was configured) is done by the following command:
::
$ sudo ninja -C build install
Note the use of **sudo** with the *ninja install* command. Using
sudo is only required when installing to a location your user does not
have write access to. Installing to a system location is a good example
of this.
If you are installing to a location that your user *does* have write
access to, then you can instead run the *ninja install* command without
putting **sudo** before it.
After installation you you **may** have to run ``ldconfig`` or a similar
utility to update your list of installed shared libs, or adjust the paths where
the system looks for binaries and shared libraries.