[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Fix vswitch-idl.ovsidl build rule with separate source and build dirs.

Ethan Jackson ethan at nicira.com
Thu Oct 4 23:16:08 UTC 2012


Hmm strange, this worked for me without the patch when I tried
building from an alternative directory.  At any rate, thanks for
fixing this.  s/change/chance in the commit message and it's good.

Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan at nicira.com>


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> Before commit e3a880272 (lib: Specify idl location more precisely.), the
> files named in VSWITCH_IDL_FILES were relative to the source directory.
> That commit made them inconsistent: one remained relative to the source
> directory, the other became relative to the build directory.  This meant
> that if the source and build directories differed, the ovsdb-idlc
> invocation had no change of succeeding.
>
> This commit fixes the problem by making the file names consistently
> relative to the build directory and then adjusting the ovsdb-idlc
> invocation to expect that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> ---
>  lib/automake.mk |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/automake.mk b/lib/automake.mk
> index a45f09d..d5927d6 100644
> --- a/lib/automake.mk
> +++ b/lib/automake.mk
> @@ -305,9 +305,11 @@ OVSIDL_BUILT += \
>         $(srcdir)/lib/vswitch-idl.ovsidl
>
>  EXTRA_DIST += $(srcdir)/lib/vswitch-idl.ann
> -VSWITCH_IDL_FILES = vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema $(srcdir)/lib/vswitch-idl.ann
> +VSWITCH_IDL_FILES = \
> +       $(srcdir)/vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema \
> +       $(srcdir)/lib/vswitch-idl.ann
>  $(srcdir)/lib/vswitch-idl.ovsidl: $(VSWITCH_IDL_FILES)
> -       $(OVSDB_IDLC) -C $(srcdir) annotate $(VSWITCH_IDL_FILES) > $@.tmp
> +       $(OVSDB_IDLC) annotate $(VSWITCH_IDL_FILES) > $@.tmp
>         mv $@.tmp $@
>
>  lib/dirs.c: lib/dirs.c.in Makefile
> --
> 1.7.2.5
>
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