Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/11] qapi: add support for lists of native types

[Peter Maydell]

On 16 May 2013 11:38, Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> wrote:
> Side question: what's a common use case for a separate $BUILD_DIR? I
> just use "git clean -fdx" in $SRC_DIR instead of "make clean". The need
> to reconfigure (and to regenerate my tags file from scratch) is a small
> price to pay for the peace of mind.

If you're in the habit of building for more than one config
(eg "native x86" plus "cross-compiled for ARM" it's nice
not to have to blow away the first set of object files to
build the second.

-- PMM