Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Laine Stump 00e9d6071b build: add $(prefix) to SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR
I noticed this problem when adding systemd support to netcf, because I
setup the configure.ac to automatically prefer using systemd over
initscripts when possible - although I had copied the
install-data-local target from the example of libvirt's
"libvirt-guests" service more or less verbatim, "make distcheck" would
fail because it was trying to install the service file directly into
/lib/systemd/system rather than into
/home/user/some/unimportant/name/lib/systemd/system.

This is caused by the install/uninstall rules for the systemd unit
files relying on $(DESTDIR) pointing the installed files to the right
place, but in reality $(DESTDIR) is empty during this part of make
distcheck - it instead sets $(prefix) with the toplevel directory used
for its test build/install/uninstall cycle.

(This problem hasn't been seen when running "make distcheck" in
libvirt because libvirt will never build/install systemd support
unless explicitly told to do so on the configure commandline, and
"make distcheck" doesn't put the "--with-initscript=..." option on the
configure commandline.)

I verified that the same problem does exist in libvirt by modifying
libvirt's configure.ac to set:

  init_systemd=yes
  with_init_script=systemd+redhat

This forces a build/install of the systemd unit files during
distcheck, which yields an error like this:

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 virtlockd.service \
  /lib/systemd/system/
libtool: install: warning: relinking `libvirt-qemu.la'
/usr/bin/install: cannot remove '/lib/systemd/system/virtlockd.service': Permission denied
make[4]: *** [install-systemd] Error 1

After adding $(prefix) to all the definitions of SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR,
make distcheck now completes successfully with the modified
configure.ac, and the above lines change to something like this:

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 virtlockd.service \
  /home/laine/devel/libvirt/libvirt-1.2.1/_inst/lib/systemd/system/
2014-01-21 13:19:46 +02:00
.gnulib@d18d1b8023 build: fix bootstrap with older autoconf 2014-01-06 14:55:10 -07:00
build-aux Make syntax check notice assignments w/o surrounding spaces. 2014-01-20 14:35:26 +01:00
daemon build: add $(prefix) to SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR 2014-01-21 13:19:46 +02:00
docs spice: expose the QEMU disable file transfer option 2014-01-21 11:35:41 +01:00
examples maint: align whitespaces with project conventions. 2014-01-20 14:35:08 +01:00
gnulib maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
include virsh: add setting throttle blkio cgroup option to blkiotune 2014-01-20 10:52:47 +08:00
m4 aarch64: Disable -fstack-protector. 2014-01-01 14:21:21 +00:00
po Release of libvirt-1.2.1 2014-01-16 17:25:58 +08:00
src build: add $(prefix) to SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR 2014-01-21 13:19:46 +02:00
tests spice: expose the QEMU disable file transfer option 2014-01-21 11:35:41 +01:00
tools build: add $(prefix) to SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR 2014-01-21 13:19:46 +02:00
.ctags maint: Make ctags work out of the box 2013-07-18 08:47:21 +02:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore Introduce Libvirt Wireshark dissector 2014-01-20 17:09:41 +01:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap Autogenerate AUTHORS 2012-10-19 12:44:56 -04:00
AUTHORS.in Add Pavel Hrdina to the committers list 2014-01-16 14:47:02 +01:00
autobuild.sh Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
autogen.sh autogen.sh: Correctly detect .git as a file 2013-08-29 13:19:45 +02:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2014-01-01 06:02:47 -07:00
bootstrap.conf Add helpers for getting env vars in a setuid environment 2013-10-21 14:03:52 +01:00
cfg.mk Introduce Libvirt Wireshark dissector 2014-01-20 17:09:41 +01:00
ChangeLog-old maint: typo fixes 2013-10-22 16:49:32 +01:00
config-post.h build: fix build of virt-login-shell on systems with older gnutls 2013-10-22 09:41:50 -06:00
configure.ac Use AC_PATH_PROG to search for dmidecode 2014-01-20 09:34:53 -07:00
COPYING maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
COPYING.LESSER maint: follow recommended practice for using LGPL 2013-05-20 14:15:21 -06:00
HACKING maint: enforce comma style usage 2013-11-20 09:24:18 -07:00
libvirt.pc.in Add missing 'libvirt_lxc_api' variable in pkg-config file 2013-09-04 14:52:40 +01:00
libvirt.spec.in Release of libvirt-1.2.1 2014-01-16 17:25:58 +08:00
Makefile.am Introduce Libvirt Wireshark dissector 2014-01-20 17:09:41 +01:00
Makefile.nonreentrant maint: use LGPL correctly 2013-05-20 14:03:48 -06:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
run.in Remove python binding 2013-11-25 16:08:00 +00:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>