Re: [Qemu-devel] [000/108] Patch Round-up for stable 2.0.1, freeze on 2014-08-12

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 August 2014 21:55, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Turns out to be caused by leftovers, from trying an incremental build in
> the same tree where I had 2.1 object files.  Maybe the makefiles can be
> improved to deal gracefully with this case, but as a clean build didn't
> suffer from the problem, it's not a showstopper.

That kind of 'deal with changes across time' robustness is
difficult, I think. At any rate we don't deal with it at all well
in many different aspects of our build system. We don't
even guarantee that a make clean/distclean will fix things...

thanks
-- PMM