Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/29] Tame a few "touch this, recompile the world" headers

[Markus Armbruster]

Alex Bennée <address@hidden> writes:

> Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> We have quite a few "touch this, recompile the world" headers.  My
>> "build everything" tree has some 6600 objects (not counting tests and
>> objects that don't depend on qemu/osdep.h).  Touching any of 54
>> headers triggers a recompile of more than half of them.
>>
>> This series reduces them to 46.
>
> I think this series is going the right way but there seems to be quite a
> lot of breakage introduced to the cross compiles:
>
>   https://app.shippable.com/github/stsquad/qemu/runs/939/summary/console
>
> I guess there is more subtlety involved when host != target. I'd
> recommend setting up a shippable account:
>
>   https://wiki.qemu.org/Testing/CI/Shippable
>
> You can of course just run:
>
>   make docker-test-build J=n
>
> And watch your machine slowly grind through all the options.

Thanks for the tips.