Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH libguestfs 1/2] build: Allow C programs using libguestfs to be compiled against build dir.

On 3/10/20 10:05 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >We use a similar trick to libvirt to allow external C programs that >use libguestfs to be compiled against the built (but not installed) >libguestfs with: > > ../libguestfs/run ./configure > make > >What actually happens is we have a second pkg-config file >(lib/local/libguestfs.pc) which points to the locally built >libguestfs. The ./run script sets up PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to this >directory. Assuming that ./configure is using pkg-config/pkgconf and >not some other half-baked solution it will pick up the libguestfs.pc >file from here which will set CFLAGS and LIBS appropriately. >--- > .gitignore | 1 + > configure.ac | 1 + > lib/Makefile.am | 1 + > lib/local/libguestfs.pc.in | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > run.in | 5 +++++ > 5 files changed, 44 insertions(+) > I like it. Should we do the same for libnbd's run script?