Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build-sys: generate tests/.gitignore

[Thomas Huth]

On 05.09.2017 12:42, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 12:21 PM Thomas Huth <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     On 04.09.2017 11 <tel:04%2009%2020%2017%2011>:03, Marc-André Lureau
>     wrote:
[...]
>     >  # Build the help program automatically
>     >
>     >  all: $(QEMU_IOTESTS_HELPERS-y)
>     >
>     > +$(SRC_PATH)/tests/.gitignore: $(MAKEFILE_LIST)
>     > +     $(call quiet-command, echo "$(tests-cleanfiles)"
>     "$(tests-cleandirs)" | \
>     > +             xargs -n1 | sort | uniq | sed -e s:^:/: >
>     $@,"GEN","$(@F)")
> 
>     Please do not use SRC_PATH here. I'm doing out of tree builds, and I
>     don't want that these are touching my source folder!
> 
> I understand the feeling, I do also mostly out of tree build. However, I
> don't think it makes much sense to generate .gitignore in the build dir.

Why not? If you're doing out-of-tree builds, you don't need the
.gitignore in the source directory anyway, so it certainly does not make
sense to generate there such a file in the source directory.

> It's git related, and in the git source dir, you have .git that is
> writable already

It's unlikely, but I think it is perfectly legal to have your git source
directory e.g. mounted temporarily as a read-only file system. I'd then
still expect to be able to use my read-only sources to build QEMU out of
tree.

 Thomas


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