Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson?

[Markus Armbruster]

Cleber Rosa <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:09:52PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 12:56, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > In any case, this wouldn't change; as you suggest below, configure could
>> > remain as a front-end (well, in-srcdir builds are not supported by
>> > Meson, so "../configure && ninja" perhaps).
>> 
>> As an aside, it might be a nice idea to drop the in-srcdir
>> build altogether for QEMU anyway -- it's not really a very
>> good idea and it means our build system has to cope with two
>> different ways of working to no particularly useful end.
>>
>
> THIS.  Please.

Seconded.

If nothing beyond abandoning in-tree builds should come out of this
thread, it will have been totally worth it for me.