Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] tools: ynl: add main install target

From: Jan Stancek
Date: Tue Dec 10 2024 - 08:59:40 EST


On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 10:30 PM Joe Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 03:47:17PM +0100, Jan Stancek wrote:
> > This will install C library, specs, rsts and pyynl. The initial
> > structure is:
> >
> > $ mkdir /tmp/myroot
> > $ make DESTDIR=/tmp/myroot install
> >
> > /usr
> > /usr/lib64
> > /usr/lib64/libynl.a
>
> This is super useful thanks for doing this work. I could be missing
> something, but it looks like the install target does not install the
> generated C headers that user code can include at build time.
>
> Am I reading that right? Is that intentional? I was thinking that it
> would be really useful to have the headers installed, too.

It's not intentional, just noone asked for it yet. We can add those.
Would /usr/include/ynl/ work? Or do you/others have a different suggestion?

Regards,
Jan

>
> > /usr/lib/python3.XX/site-packages/pyynl/*
> > /usr/lib/python3.XX/site-packages/pyynl-0.0.1.dist-info/*
> > /usr/bin
> > /usr/bin/ynl
> > /usr/bin/ynl-ethtool
> > /usr/bin/ynl-gen-c
> > /usr/bin/ynl-gen-rst
> > /usr/share
> > /usr/share/doc
> > /usr/share/doc/ynl
> > /usr/share/doc/ynl/*.rst
> > /usr/share/ynl
> > /usr/share/ynl/genetlink-c.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/genetlink-legacy.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/genetlink.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/netlink-raw.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/devlink.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/dpll.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/ethtool.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/fou.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/handshake.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/netdev.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/net_shaper.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/nfsd.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/nftables.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/nlctrl.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/ovs_datapath.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/ovs_flow.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/ovs_vport.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/rt_addr.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/rt_link.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/rt_neigh.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/rt_route.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/rt_rule.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/tcp_metrics.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/tc.yaml
> > /usr/share/ynl/specs/team.yaml
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [...]
>