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Based on a report by Chandrashekar Shastri, at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979360 On systems where git cannot access the outside world, a developer can instead arrange to get a copy of gnulib at the right commit via side channels (such as NFS share drives), set GNULIB_SRCDIR, then use ./autogen.sh --no-git. In this setup, we will now avoid direct use of git. Of course, this means no automatic gnulib updates when libvirt.git updates its submodule, but it is expected that any developer in such a situation is already prepared to deal with the fallout. * .gnulib: Update to latest, for bootstrap. * bootstrap: Synchronize from gnulib. * autogen.sh (no_git): Avoid git when requested. * cfg.mk (_update_required): Skip automatic rerun of bootstrap if we can't use git. * docs/compiling.html.in: Document this setup. * docs/hacking.html.in: Mention this. * HACKING: Regenerate. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit 1e503ee534af166d8bbcdd9857fa5946449634b6)
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>