----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> To: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Cc: "QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 4, 2019 6:48:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [PULL 12/30] Makefile: Remove generated files when doing 'distclean'
>
> On 04/10/19 14:20, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 18:07, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> >>
> >> When running "make distclean" we currently leave a lot of generated
> >> files in the build directory. Fix that.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >
> >> diff --git a/tests/Makefile.include b/tests/Makefile.include
> >> index 3543451..48b52da 100644
> >> --- a/tests/Makefile.include
> >> +++ b/tests/Makefile.include
> >> @@ -1176,11 +1176,21 @@ check: check-block check-qapi-schema check-unit
> >> check-softfloat check-qtest chec
> >>  check-clean:
> >>         rm -rf $(check-unit-y) tests/*.o $(QEMU_IOTESTS_HELPERS-y)
> >>         rm -rf $(sort $(foreach target,$(SYSEMU_TARGET_LIST),
> >>         $(check-qtest-$(target)-y)) $(check-qtest-generic-y))
> >> -       rm -f tests/test-qapi-gen-timestamp
> >>         rm -rf $(TESTS_VENV_DIR) $(TESTS_RESULTS_DIR)
> >> +       rm -f tests/qemu-iotests/common.env tests/qemu-iotests/check.*
> >> +       rm -f tests/test-qapi-gen-timestamp tests/qht-bench$(EXESUF) \
> >> +               tests/fp/fp-test tests/fp/*.out tests/qapi-schema/*.test.*
> >>
> >>  clean: check-clean
> >
> > Hi; this change breaks the sequence
> >  'make clean; make; make check'
> >
> > because now 'make clean' removes tests/qemu-iotests/common.env.
> > But this file is created by 'configure', not by 'make', so if there's
> > no other reason why 'make' needs to re-run configure then we get
> > to the 'make check' stage with the file not existing, and then
> > when we try to run the iotests they fail with:
> >
> > ./check: line 60:
> > /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-for-merges/build/alldbg/tests/qemu-iotests/common.env:
> > No such file or directory
> > check: failed to source common.env (make sure the qemu-iotests are run
> > from tests/qemu-iotests in the build tree)
> > /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-for-merges/tests/Makefile.include:1102:
> > recipe for target 'check-tests/check-block.sh' failed
>
> I've dropped this patch and will send v3 that adds back the VMX patches.

Thanks, and I will rework the patch to only remove that file during "make distclean",
and not already during "make clean".

 Thomas