Re: [PATCH] Update scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 at 05:42, Alessandro Di Federico via
<qemu-devel@nongnu.org> wrote:
>
> Note: `Makefile` relies on modification dates in the source tree to
> detect changes to `meson_options.txt`. However, git does not track
> those. Therefore, the following was necessary to regenerate
> `meson-buildoptions.sh`:
>
>     touch meson_options.txt
>     cd "$BUILD_DIR"
>     make update-buildoptions

I don't understand the issue. Can you describe the steps that cause
meson-buildoptions.sh to become out-of-sync with meson_options.txt?

This will continue to be a problem in the future. Is there a way to
fix it permanently?

Stefan