Re: [PULL v6 000/150] Meson-based build system

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 19:57, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>
> 19.08.2020 21:12, Peter Maydell wrote:
> ...
> > Also one of my random "just test linux-user" setups fails
> > because the build doesn't seem to have put the final binaries
> > in the right place:
> ...
> > I can live with the .o files moving around (though I would have
> > preferred it if they did not), but the final binaries should be
> > being built into the same places we always have. Otherwise we're
> > going to break a lot of "just run from the build tree" setups
> > and instructions.
>
> is it really that important? We've changed single target build
> rules already (from subdir-x86_64-softmmu to x86_64-softmmu/all
> for one), which broke quite some mostly automatic build
> systems which needed some fixing. Moving executables isn't a
> big deal after that, methinks..

It breaks my setups and also my muscle memory for where
executables live. So this is the limit of how much I'm
willing to allow Meson to mess us around, I think.

thanks
-- PMM