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That's all we know. X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Kevin Wolf , Stefan Hajnoczi , QEMU Developers Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 12:56, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 20/08/20 12:54, Kevin Wolf wrote: > >> Paolo's conversion-to-Meson patchseries is about to land, so now > >> is the time for people who would like this "automatically create > >> a build directory and use it" behaviour to write the necessary > >> patches. Any volunteers ? > >> > >> My current plan is to land the Meson series first, because it is > >> really painful for Paolo to try to keep rebasing it as other > >> changes to the old build system occur. This would break > >> in-tree builds temporarily until the "automatic creation and > >> use of a builddir" patches go in on top of it. > > > > Usually, our requirement is that patch series don't break anything. And > > if something slips through, whoever broke it is supposed to fix it, not > > whoever is affected. > > The Meson conversion was announced in October 2019 as breaking in-tree > builds, and the deprecation request is from March 2020. So I don't > think this is a breakage but rather a widely-announced change. No, we need to put in the back-compat for making basic in-source-tree configure/make/make install work. There was a fair amount of discussion of this on-list and the clear consensus was that it was widely enough used, that it wouldn't be a huge amount of work to make it do a behind-the-scenes creation of the buildir, and that we should retain it. thanks -- PMM