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Re: [Qemu-devel] trace: weird issues with makefile dependencies


From: Blue Swirl
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] trace: weird issues with makefile dependencies
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:11:17 +0000

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 22/01/2013 15:59, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
>> Why not seriously default to ./build/ for build products and get rid of
>> class in-tree builds?
>>
>> The build still happens inside the working tree by default but it will
>> be in a dedicated ./build/ directory.  We can easily rm -rf that
>> directory to eliminate all build products.
>>
>> The only downside I see is existing developers, packagers, and testers
>> having to get used to ./build/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 and
>> friends.
>
> Packagers are excluded, since "make install" would abstract them from
> the change.
>
>> I think it's worth it if we can eliminate these time-consuming build
>> system glitches.
>
> Well, "patches are welcome". :) Using out-of-tree builds is what you'd
> do for all other projects.

Once upon time I made a patch to force out of tree build, maybe that
could be resurrected:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-11/msg01500.html

>
> Paolo
>



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