From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2EVF-0005Sx-RV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 07:21:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2EVE-0002mu-20 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 07:21:28 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44680) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h2EVD-0002iF-RY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2019 07:21:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 12:21:18 +0000 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Message-ID: <20190308122118.GF19819@redhat.com> Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= References: <3246431b-8d6e-f2bc-e0f0-99d80384d97b@redhat.com> <87r2bigarf.fsf@zen.linaroharston> <62408d6c-5a61-ffb2-f810-6ef36703b277@redhat.com> <81f2035b-f584-f9b7-e6af-4754707b2f17@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <81f2035b-f584-f9b7-e6af-4754707b2f17@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake Cc: =?utf-8?Q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9?= Lureau , Paolo Bonzini , Peter Maydell , Thomas Huth , Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= , QEMU Developers , Richard Henderson On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:24:07PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 3/7/19 1:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > > I don't mind a switch to mandatory out-of-tree builds (I like the > > convenience of in-tree for quick hacks, but VPATH is infinitely more > > flexible when testing multiple build configurations in parallel, and > > I've worked on other projects with mandatory VPATH builds without seeing > > too many complaints there). > > I will add: The GNU Coding Standards require both in-tree and > out-of-tree builds to work (and you get that with Autotool'd projects). You only get it with autotools if you are good at writing Makefile.ams :-) libvirt frequently breaks VPATH by accident when using autotools by missing $(srcdir) prefixes on paths. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|