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Commit f7bd00c12 pulled in a gnulib module that fails to compile on mingw. While it would be nice to pull in a newer version of .gnulib that fixes this, it is difficult to backport any .gnulib update to older releases. So, it makes sense to take advantage of gnulib-tool's ability to support local diffs, where we can apply specific diffs in our use of gnulib without waiting for upstream gnulib to pick up those changes, as well as avoiding a wholesale .gnulib update. The existence of local diffs will also make it easier to backport fixes against a tarball (as long as a tarball and libvirt.git share the same .gnulib commit, then the tarball can be patched by applying the same local diffs as a post-release libvirt.git commit, without having to rerun an entire gnulib-tool bootstrap). This patch introduces the framework for supporting local diffs, without actually introducing any. * bootstrap.conf (local_gl_dir): New variable. * autogen.sh (bootstrap_hash): Hash any local diffs, to force a re-bootstrap if just diffs change. * cfg.mk (_update_required): Likewise.
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>