From 91284a2893a3f960bfa7274b3a10f156980d71af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Krempa Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 14:20:15 +0200 Subject: docs: compiling: Section off block on how to run from build directory MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Running from build directory isn't strictly tied to the git-checkout build so make a new section for it. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko --- docs/compiling.rst | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/compiling.rst b/docs/compiling.rst index 25dd0f4265..fc5556738d 100644 --- a/docs/compiling.rst +++ b/docs/compiling.rst @@ -98,10 +98,12 @@ normal OS vendor prefixes, use $ ninja -C build -When doing this for day-to-day development purposes, it is recommended -not to install over the OS vendor provided binaries. Instead simply run -libvirt directly from the source tree. For example to run a privileged -libvirtd instance +Running compiled binaries from build directory +---------------------------------------------- + +For testing or development purposes it's usually not necessary to install the +built binaries into your system. Instead simply run libvirt directly from the +source tree. For example to run a privileged libvirtd instance :: -- cgit v1.2.1