Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: simplify qapi-py definition with wildcard

[Wei Yang]

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 07:00:12AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>On 5/21/19 3:12 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
>> All the python script in scripts/qapi is used to generate qapi code. Use
>> wildcard to simplify it.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  Makefile | 8 +-------
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
>I'm not a fan of $(wildcard). It makes your tarball creation
>non-deterministic - if there is a leftover file from development that is
>no longer part of the build, wildcard will still pick it up.  Explicit
>lists are better.  I'm inclined to NACK this, but Markus has final say
>since he maintains the qapi generator.
>

Thanks for comment.

Yes, for tarball, the order is a problem. But those python scripts are not
used in tarballs.

For leftover files, you mean those files not used and should be deleted?

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