[Swan-dev] kvm fedorabase install failing?

[Andrew Cagney]

On 1 January 2017 at 13:12, Paul Wouters <paul at nohats.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Jan 2017, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> There seems to be a problem with KVM_SOURCEDIR and KVM_TESTINGDIR.  The
>> make file has:
>>
>>    KVM_SOURCEDIR ?= $(abs_top_srcdir)
>>
>> yet it gets assigned to something like:
>>
>>   KVM_SOURCEDIR = $$(abs_top_srcdir)
>>
>> so far no luck in figuring out why (or reproducing the behaviour).  A
>> dump of make might be helpful
>> here.  Something like:
>>
>
> Note it happens on fedora25 and centos7 for me.
>
>    make -d kvm-help | grep KVM_SOURCEDIR
>>
>
> [build at thinkpad libreswan]$ make -d kvm-help | grep KVM_SOURCEDIR
>      KVM_SOURCEDIR: $(abs_top_srcdir)
>
>
At least that confirms that the value is wrong.

It turns out that GNU 'make -d' isn't much use here; far more helpful is
'make -qp | less' as it shows where/what the variable is.  Here it was
picked up from an optional make file.

Andrew


> Paul
>
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