Re: [Libguestfs] Continuing the split (was: Let's split up the libguestfs git repo and tarballs)

On Friday, 29 November 2019 13:09:47 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > So, the difficulty of git submodules aside, we have now split off > virt-v2v and virt-p2v into separate projects. > > I also yesterday split off the boot analysis tools into a repo which > is likely to be rarely used and which I'll probably not bother to > package in Fedora. > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs-analysis-tools > > Where do we go from here? Before going on with splitting, I'd take a "pause" to review the status of the projects, after their split. Considering the work that was already done to split them, and various difficulties we faced, there is enough material to check what still need to be improved/fixed, as most probably the same issues will happen in case of further splits. The biggest issue I see so far is the impossibility to build virt-v2v (the only split project that requires libguestfs) with an uninstalled version of libguestfs. I see (at least) two problems. 1) building C programs. Usually this means having a .pc file for pkg-config in PKG_CONFIG_PATH, with headers and library in the location of that file. An approach I've seen done is to create a -uninstalled.pc file with its paths pointing to the source/build directories, and making sure the path of that -uninstalled.pc file is in PKG_CONFIG_PATH (which ./run can do). I never tried to do this, I can give it a try on Monday to see how it works.