[ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/6 v2] lib: Prepare for exposure of additional header files

[Flavio Leitner]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:28:39PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> v2 with the already merged patches omitted and comments addressed:
>  - Dropped convertion to automake subdir and use of prefix
>    header variable as per Ben's suggestion.
>  - Fixes trailing whitespace as spotted by Flavio.
>  - Removed redundant header install instructions in Fedora spec as
>    suggested by Flavio
>  - No longer expose include/openvswitch/lib and config.h in
>    openvswitch-devel Fedora package
> 
> Now that shared libraries can be built, the next step is to
> prepare the build system to make headers installable and ease
> linking with the help of pkg-config files.
> 
> This series:
>  * Provides pkg-config files for all libraries
>    * Static linking can be achieved with:
>        $ pkg-config libopenvswitch --libs --static
>  * Installs the already public headers in include/
>    * The openvswitch/ and openflow/ structure is preserved
>  * Fixup installed headers of the Fedora openvswitch-devel package
> 
> The library is still mostly unusable at this point without an OVS
> source tree to acquire the headers. A next series will start exposing
> existing APIs by moving some of the them to public headers.
 
The series looks good to me.  The spec change went further than
what I had proposed, but it's a step in the right direction.
Thanks Thomas!

Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com>