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Added autotools magic to replace custom check scripts. The previous checks have been ported to autoconf, and some additional ones have been added (plus the suggestions from running autoscan). Two files are created as a result from executing configure script, config/Tools.mk and config.h. conf/Tools.mk is included by tools/Rules.mk, and contains most of the options previously defined in .config, that can now be set passing parameters or defining environment variables when executing configure script. config.h is only used by libxl/xl to detect yajl_version.h. [ tools/config.sub and config.guess copied from autotools-dev 20100122.1 from Debian squeeze i386, which is GPLv2. tools/configure generated using the included ./autogen.sh which ran autoconf 2.67-2 from Debian squeeze i386. autoconf is GPLv3+ but has a special exception for the autoconf output; this exception applies to us and exempts us from complying with GPLv3+ for configure, which is good as Xen is GPL2 only. - Ian Jackson ] Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu> Tested-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> Committed-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Xen API C Bindings ================== This distribution is the source code to the proposed Xen API C bindings. The Xen API project will define an XML-RPC protocol for remote and local management of Xen-based systems, and a set of bindings for these XML-RPC calls into a number of languages (this package contains those to the C language). The intention is to standardise these XML-RPC calls, and then the Xen project will guarantee that that wire protocol will be supported for the long term. The bindings will also be supported in the Xen tree, giving a stable foundation for Xen management tools and middlewares, in particular the Xen CIM providers and libvirt. THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. The API and bindings are under active design and development, and this is a snapshot release for developers only. Both the API and the C bindings are scheduled to be stabilised by the Xen 3.0.4 release i.e. October 2006 at the earliest. These bindings are open-source (LGPL), and will be committed as libraries to the Xen trees for all to use after the Xen 3.0.3 release. We welcome any discussion about this library and the API in general. Please join the Xen-API mailing list if you are interested in this project. I (Ewan Mellor) will collate all the feedback from that list and push out new versions of the document and the bindings as and when. URLs ---- Xen-API wiki page: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenApi Xen-API mailing list: http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api Usage ----- The bindings depend upon libxml2, the XML toolkit from the GNOME project; the test program depends upon libcurl3 also. On Debian, you need the packages libxml2-dev and libcurl3-dev. To compile, type make. To compile the test also, type make test/test_bindings, remembering the additional dependency. To run the test, do LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./test/test_bindings <url> <username> <password> where <url> is the fragment of the server URL that follows the http://, for example "localhost:8005/RPC2".