Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] use --libexecdir instead of ignoring it first and reinventing it later

[Michael Tokarev]

On 07.06.2012 02:36, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 07.06.2012 00:23, schrieb Michael Tokarev:
>> On 07.06.2012 02:21, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> Trust me, it [works]. Otherwise our package build would still fail since
>>> our %_libexecdir is /usr/lib.
>>>
>>> See Makefile, that one actually uses $(libexecdir):
>>
>> Makefile installs stuff to /usr/lib, but does the resulting
>> qemu binary look there too?
> 
> Bo Yang, I believe you tested the new bridge helper recently. Did you
> run into any path issues with /usr/libexec vs. /usr/lib?
> 
> Bruce seems to use make install libexecdir=%_libexecdir for the kvm
> package just like I do for qemu.

$ strings x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86-64 | grep bridge

is a very simple test.  But I wonder if it is actually used
except of the help text?  It appears to be used, and even
enabled by default..  But I haven't looked into the code
this time, -EDEEPNIGHTALREADY :)

/mjt