The latter is not officially "wrong", but *is* terribly anachronistic.
I think automake documentation or comments call that syntax obsolescent.
* cfg.mk (_makefile_at_at_check_exceptions): Exempt @SCHEMADIR@
and @SYSCONFDIR@ uses -- there are no Makefile variables for those.
* docs/Makefile.am: Use $(INSTALL), not @install@.
* examples/dominfo/Makefile.am: Similar.
* examples/domsuspend/Makefile.am: Similar.
* proxy/Makefile.am: Similar.
* python/Makefile.am: Similar.
* python/tests/Makefile.am: Similar.
* src/Makefile.am: Similar.
* tests/Makefile.am: Similar.

This stops libvirt from probing for a libvirtd on the ESX server and
sets the base for the implementation of the secondary drivers.

All other stateful drivers are linked directly to libvirtd
instead of libvirt.so. Link the secret driver to libvirtd too.

* daemon/Makefile.am: link the secret driver to libvirtd
* daemon/libvirtd.c: add #ifdef WITH_SECRETS blocks
* src/Makefile.am: don't link the secret driver to libvirt.so
* src/libvirt_private.syms: remove the secretRegister symbol

* src/Makefile.am src/cpu/cpu_map.c: rename in Makefile and in the
  cpu map loading code

* src/Makefile.am: install it in $(pkgdatadir) i.e. /usr/share/libvirt/
  usually

* src/cpu/cpu_map.xml: newdescription file
* src/Makefile.am: include it in dist

Each driver supporting CPU selection must fill in host CPU capabilities.
When filling them, drivers for hypervisors running on the same node as
libvirtd can use cpuNodeData() to obtain raw CPU data. Other drivers,
such as VMware, need to implement their own way of getting such data.
Raw data can be decoded into virCPUDefPtr using cpuDecode() function.

When implementing virConnectCompareCPU(), a hypervisor driver can just
call cpuCompareXML() function with host CPU capabilities.

For each guest for which a driver supports selecting CPU models, it must
set the appropriate feature in guest's capabilities:

    virCapabilitiesAddGuestFeature(guest, "cpuselection", 1, 0)

Actions needed when a domain is being created depend on whether the
hypervisor understands raw CPU data (currently CPUID for i686, x86_64
architectures) or symbolic names has to be used.

Typical use by hypervisors which prefer CPUID (such as VMware and Xen):

- convert guest CPU configuration from domain's XML into a set of raw
  data structures each representing one of the feature policies:

    cpuEncode(conn, architecture, guest_cpu_config,
              &forced_data, &required_data, &optional_data,
              &disabled_data, &forbidden_data)

- create a mask or whatever the hypervisor expects to see and pass it
  to the hypervisor

Typical use by hypervisors with symbolic model names (such as QEMU):

- get raw CPU data for a computed guest CPU:

    cpuGuestData(conn, host_cpu, guest_cpu_config, &data)

- decode raw data into virCPUDefPtr with a possible restriction on
  allowed model names:

    cpuDecode(conn, guest, data, n_allowed_models, allowed_models)

- pass guest->model and guest->features to the hypervisor

* src/cpu/cpu.c src/cpu/cpu.h src/cpu/cpu_generic.c
  src/cpu/cpu_generic.h src/cpu/cpu_map.c src/cpu/cpu_map.h
  src/cpu/cpu_x86.c src/cpu/cpu_x86.h src/cpu/cpu_x86_data.h
* configure.in: check for CPUID instruction
* src/Makefile.am: glue the new files in
* src/libvirt_private.syms: add new private symbols
* po/POTFILES.in: add new cpu files containing translatable strings

* include/libvirt/virterror.h src/util/virterror.c: add new domain
  VIR_FROM_CPU for errors
* src/conf/cpu_conf.c src/conf/cpu_conf.h: new parsing module
* src/Makefile.am proxy/Makefile.am: include new files
* src/conf/capabilities.[ch] src/conf/domain_conf.[ch]: reference
  new code
* src/libvirt_private.syms: private export of new entry points

Long ago we tried to use Fedora's lokkit utility in order to register
our iptables rules so that 'service iptables restart' would
automatically load our rules.

There was one fatal flaw - if the user had configured iptables without
lokkit, then we would clobber that configuration by running lokkit.

We quickly disabled lokkit support, but never removed it. Let's do
that now.

The 'my virtual network stops working when I restart iptables' still
remains. For all the background on this saga, see:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/227011

* src/util/iptables.c: remove lokkit support

* configure.in: remove --enable-lokkit

* libvirt.spec.in: remove the dirs used only for saving rules for lokkit

* src/Makefile.am: ditto

* src/libvirt_private.syms, src/network/bridge_driver.c,
  src/util/iptables.h: remove references to iptablesSaveRules

Initial support for the new QEMU monitor protocol  using JSON
as the data encoding format instead of plain text

* po/POTFILES.in: Add src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c
* src/qemu/qemu_conf.c, src/qemu/qemu_conf.h: Hack to turn on QMP
  mode. Replace with a version number check on >= 0.12 later
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c: Delegate to json monitor if enabled
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c, src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h: Add
  impl of QMP protocol
* src/Makefile.am: Add src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.{c,h}

This introduces simple API for handling JSON data. There is
an internal data structure 'virJSONValuePtr' which stores a
arbitrary nested JSON value (number, string, array, object,
nul, etc).  There are APIs for constructing/querying objects
and APIs for parsing/formatting string formatted JSON data.

This uses the YAJL library for parsing/formatting from

 http://lloyd.github.com/yajl/

* src/util/json.h, src/util/json.c: Data structures and APIs
  for representing JSON data, and parsing/formatting it
* configure.in: Add check for yajl library
* libvirt.spec.in: Add build requires for yajl
* src/Makefile.am: Add json.c/h
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Export JSON symbols to drivers

Also fixed serial port configuration which was broken due to recent
change in virDomainChrDef where targetType was newly added.

* src/Makefile.am: add new files
* src/vbox/vbox_driver.c: add case for version 3.1
* src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c: refactor common patterns into macros, support for
  version 3.1, serial port configuration fix
* src/vbox/vbox_CAPI_v3_1.h, src/vbox/vbox_V3_1.c: generated code

* src/Makefile.am: Add processinfo.h/processinfo.c
* src/util/processinfo.c, src/util/processinfo.h: Module providing
  APIs for getting/setting process CPU affinity
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Switch over to new APIs for schedular
  affinity
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Export virProcessInfoSetAffinity
  and virProcessInfoGetAffinity to internal drivers

0.7.3 was broken

* configure.in docs/news.html.in: release of 0.7.4
* configure.in libvirt.spec.in: require netcf >= 0.1.4
* src/Makefile.am: node_device/node_device_udev.h was missing from
  NODE_DEVICE_DRIVER_UDEV_SOURCES breaking compilation on platforms with
  udev

uses libpciaccess to provide human readable names for PCI vendor and
device IDs
* configure.in: add a requirement for libpciaccess >= 0.10.0
* src/Makefile.am: add the associated compilation flags and link
* src/node_device/node_device_udev.c: lookup the libpciaccess for
  vendor name and product name based on their ids

* configure.in src/Makefile.am: remove the configuration check and
  build instructions
* src/node_device/node_device_devkit.c: removed the module
* src/node_device/node_device_driver.c src/node_device/node_device_driver.h:
  removed references to the old backend

* configure.in: add new --with-udev, disabled by default, and requiring
  libudev > 145
* src/node_device/node_device_udev.c src/node_device/node_device_udev.h:
  the new node device backend
* src/node_device/node_device_linux_sysfs.c: moved node_device_hal_linux.c
  to a better file name
* src/conf/node_device_conf.c src/conf/node_device_conf.h: add a couple
  of fields in node device definitions, and an API to look them up,
  remove a couple of unused fields from previous patch.
* src/node_device/node_device_driver.c src/node_device/node_device_driver.h:
  plug the new driver
* po/POTFILES.in src/Makefile.am src/libvirt_private.syms: add the new
  files and symbols
* src/util/util.h src/util/util.c: add a new convenience macro
  virBuildPath and virBuildPathInternal() function

The qemu_driver.c code should not contain any code that interacts
with the QEMU monitor at a low level. A previous commit moved all
the command invocations out. This change moves out the code which
actually opens the monitor device.

* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Remove qemudOpenMonitor & methods called
  from it.
* src/Makefile.am: Add qemu_monitor.{c,h}
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h: Add qemuMonitorOpen()
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c: All code for opening the monitor

* src/qemu/qemu.conf src/qemu/qemu_conf.c src/qemu/qemu_conf.h: there is
  a new config type option for mac filtering
* src/qemu/qemu_bridge_filter.[ch]: new module for the ebtable entry points
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: plug the MAC filtering at the right places
  in the domain life cycle
* src/Makefile.am po/POTFILES.in: add the new module

* configure.in: look for ebtables binary location if present
* src/Makefile.am: add the new module
* src/util/ebtables.[ch]: new module and internal APIs around
  the ebtables binary
* src/libvirt_private.syms: export the symbols only internally

* src/util/network.h src/util/network.c: utilities to parse network
  addresses, check netmask and compute ranges

* src/Makefile.am: add selinux CFLAGS and linker flags to security driver

* src/lxc/libvirtd_lxc.aug src/lxc/test_libvirtd_lxc.aug: augeas schemas
  for lxc.conf
* src/Makefile.am libvirt.spec.in: glue the new augeas files in

* src/lxc/lxc.conf: new configuration file, there is currently one
  tunable "log_with_libvirtd" that controls whether an lxc controller will
  log only to the container log file, or whether it will honor libvirtd's
  log output configuration. This provides a way to have libvirtd and its
  children log to a single file.  The default is to log to the container
  log file.
* src/Makefile.am libvirt.spec.in: add the new file
* src/lxc/lxc_conf.[ch] src/lxc/lxc_driver.c: read the new log value
  from the configuration file and pass the log informations when
  starting up a container.

* configure.in: look for AppArmor and devel
* src/security/security_apparmor.[ch] src/security/security_driver.c
  src/Makefile.am: add and plug the new driver
* src/security/virt-aa-helper.c: new binary which is used exclusively by
  the AppArmor security driver to manipulate AppArmor.
* po/POTFILES.in: registers the new files
* tests/Makefile.am tests/secaatest.c tests/virt-aa-helper-test:
  tests for virt-aa-helper and the security driver, secaatest.c is
  identical to seclabeltest.c except it initializes the 'apparmor'
  driver instead of 'selinux'

Fix "make rpcgen", broken by the directory reorganization.

* src/Makefile.am (rpcgen): Fix path to rpcgen_fix.pl.

Rename virStorageVolFormatFileSystem to virStorageFileFormat and
move to src/util/storage_file.[ch]

* src/Makefile.am: add src/util/storage_file.[ch]

* src/conf/storage_conf.[ch]: move enum from here ...

* src/util/storage_file.[ch]: .. to here

* src/libvirt_private.syms: update To/FromString exports

* src/storage/storage_backend.c, src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c,
  src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c: update for above changes

Pull out all the QEMU monitor interaction code to a separate
file. This will make life easier when we need to drop in a
new implementation for the forthcoming QMP machine friendly
monitor support.

Next step is to add formal APIs for each monitor command,
and remove direct commands for sending/receiving generic
data.

* src/Makefile.am: Add qemu_monitor.c to build
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Remove code for monitor interaction
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c, src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.h: New
  file for monitor interaction
* po/POTFILES.in: Add src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c

When making changes to the remote protocol, src/ is always built
first, so rpcgen should live there, to avoid having to run make
in the 'daemon/' directory before building src/

* src/Makefile.am: Add rules for rpcgen, and drop -I../daemon from
  remote client build
* daemon/Makefile.am: Add -I../src/remote/ to libvirtd build
  and remove rpcgen rules
* daemon/libvirtd.c: Adapt include of remote_driver.h taking
  into account new -I flag
* daemon/remote_protocol.c, daemon/remote_protocol.h,
  daemon/remote_protocol.x: Move to src/remote/
* daemon/rpcgen_fix.pl: Move to src/remote/rpcgen_fix.pl

* src/bridge.c, src/bridge.h, src/buf.c, src/buf.h, src/cgroup.c,
  src/cgroup.h, src/conf.c, src/conf.h, src/event.c, src/event.h,
  src/hash.c, src/hash.h, src/hostusb.c, src/hostusb.h,
  src/iptables.c, src/iptables.h, src/logging.c, src/logging.h,
  src/memory.c, src/memory.h, src/pci.c, src/pci.h, src/qparams.c,
  src/qparams.h, src/stats_linux.c, src/stats_linux.h,
  src/threads-pthread.c, src/threads-pthread.h, src/threads-win32.c,
  src/threads-win32.h, src/threads.c, src/threads.h, src/util.c,
  src/util.h, src/uuid.c, src/uuid.h, src/virterror.c,
  src/virterror_internal.h, src/xml.c, src/xml.h: Move all files
  into src/util/
* daemon/Makefile.am: Add -Isrc/util/ to build flags
* src/Makefile.am: Add -Isrc/util/ to build flags and update for
  moved files
* src/libvirt_private.syms: Export cgroup APIs since they're now
  in util rather than linking directly to drivers
* src/xen/xs_internal.c: Disable bogus virEventRemoveHandle call
  when built under PROXY
* proxy/Makefile.am: Update for changed file locations. Remove
  bogus build of event.c
* tools/Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am: Add -Isrc/util/ to build flags

* src/capabilities.c, src/capabilities.h, src/domain_conf.c,
  src/domain_conf.h, src/domain_event.c, src/domain_event.h,
  src/interface_conf.c, src/interface_conf.h,
  src/network_conf.c, src/network_conf.h, src/node_device_conf.c,
  src/node_device_conf.h, src/secret_conf.c, src/secret_conf.h,
  src/storage_conf.c, src/storage_conf.h, src/storage_encryption_conf.c,
  src/storage_encryption_conf.h: Move to src/conf/
* src/Makefile.am: Add -Isrc/conf to the individual build targets
  which need to use XML config APIs. Remove LIBXML_CFLAGS, LIBSSH2_CFLAGS
  and SELINUX_CFLAGS from global INCLUDES and only have them in build
  targets which actually need them.  Create a libvirt_conf.la
  convenience library for all config parsers
* src/hostusb.h: Remove bogus include of domain_conf.h
* tests/Makefile.am: Add -Isrc/conf. Remove bogus -I$builddir/src
  since it never has any generated header files
* daemon/Makefile.am: Add -Isrc/conf
* proxy/Makefile.am: Add -Isrc/conf and cope with renamed files
* src/hash.c: Remove bogus include of libxml/threads.h

* daemon/default-network.xml: Move to src/network/default.xml
* daemon/libvirtd_qemu.aug, daemon/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug: Move
  to src/qemu/
* src/qemu.conf: Move to src/qemu/qemu.conf
* daemon/Makefile.am: Remove rules for default-nmetwork.xml and
  libvirtd_qemu.aug and test_libvirtd_qemu.aug. Fix typo in
  uninstall-local that would install polkit again.
* src/Makefile.am: Add rules for installing network/default.xml
  and the qemu/*.aug files. Add test case for QEMU augeas files.
  Add uninstall-local rule for files/directories created during
  install. Rename install-exec-local to install-data-local.
  Only install qemu.conf if WITH_QEMU is set.
* tests/networkschematest: Update for XML location move

Move the virsh tool and its man page into the tools directory

* Makefile.am: Remove rules for virsh.1 man page
* virsh.1: Remove auto-generated file
* docs/Makefile.am: Remove rules for virsh.pod man page
* docs/virsh.pod: Move to tools/ directory
* src/Makefile.am, src/.gitignore: Remove rules for virsh
* src/console.c, src/console.h, src/*.ico, src/virsh_win_icon.rc,
  src/virsh.c: Move into tools/ directory
* tools/Makefile.am: Add rules for building virsh
* tools/.gitignore: Ignore virsh built files
* tests/virshtest.c, tests/int-overflow: Update for new
  virsh location

* src/Makefile.am, src/qemu/qemu_conf.h, src/qemu/qemu_driver.c,
  tests/seclabeltest.c: Adapt for changed paths
* src/security.c: Rename to src/security/security_driver.c
* src/security.h: Rename to src/security/security_driver.h
* src/security_selinux.c, src/security_selinux.h: Move to src/security/

* daemon/qemud.c, src/Makefile.am: Adapt for changed paths
* src/secret_driver.c, src/secret_driver.h: Move to src/secret/

* daemon/qemud.c, src/Makefile.am: Adapt for changed paths
* src/interface_driver.c: Rename to src/interface/netcf_driver.c
* src/interface_driver.h: Rename to src/interface/netcf_driver.h

* daemon/qemud.c, src/Makefile.am: Adapt for changed paths
* src/network_driver.c: Rename to src/network/bridge_driver.c
* src/network_driver.h: Rename to src/network/bridge_driver.h

* daemon/mdns.c: Remove bogus include
* daemon/qemud.c, src/Makefile.am, src/libvirt.c: Adapt for
  changed paths
* src/remote_internal.c: Rename to src/remote/remote_driver.c
* src/remote_internal.h: Rename to src/remote/remote_driver.h