[pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server v8 1/6] Force overwriting existing compressed man pages and symbolic links

[Emmanuel Kasper]

On 09/14/2017 08:09 AM, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> On 09/13/2017 04:10 PM, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
>> This allows calling the 'make install' target twice in a row.
> 
> Looks OK, we overwrite everything else so why not the man pages.
> 
> This can be already applied even if we would say the current
> iteration of this series still lacks something, IMO, no need
> to drag this along...
> 
> Also, FYI: I assume you made this patch in the first place to
> allow faster testing your changes by just doing `make install`
> circumventing the slower package build of `make dinstall` where
> this patch wouldn't be needed?
> If so, you could like to use perl's -I switch:
> 
>> -Idirectory
>>          Directories specified by -I are prepended to the search
>>          path for modules (@INC).
> 
> 
> For example, in your case you could do the following from inside the
> qemu-servers top level directory:
> 
> perl -I. ./qm importovf ...
> 
> Just for the case that you did not know this all already :)
> 

I was using use lib qw(..);
in the unit tests, but not the -I switch for the command line
thanks for the hint