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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: berrange@redhat.com, alex.bennee@linaro.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kraxel@redhat.com, philmd@redhat.com,
	Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: simplify qapi-py definition with wildcard
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 17:28:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfyzrfms.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c184d4f7-686b-d54a-f969-a05ab965028a@redhat.com> (Eric Blake's message of "Tue, 21 May 2019 07:00:12 -0500")

Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> writes:

> On 5/21/19 3:12 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
>> All the python script in scripts/qapi is used to generate qapi code. Use
>> wildcard to simplify it.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>  Makefile | 8 +-------
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> I'm not a fan of $(wildcard). It makes your tarball creation
> non-deterministic - if there is a leftover file from development that is
> no longer part of the build, wildcard will still pick it up.  Explicit

Actually, in this case can "only" adds spurious prerequisites.

> lists are better.  I'm inclined to NACK this, but Markus has final say
> since he maintains the qapi generator.

I consider use of $(wildcard) for the purpose of collecting sources a
lazy mistake.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-21 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-21  8:12 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: simplify qapi-py definition with wildcard Wei Yang
2019-05-21 12:00 ` Eric Blake
2019-05-21 15:28   ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2019-05-22  0:53     ` Wei Yang
2019-05-22  1:36       ` Eric Blake
2019-05-22  2:36         ` Wei Yang
2019-05-22  0:52   ` Wei Yang

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