From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZefWb-0005jV-9S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 04:35:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZefWX-0004l4-Ec for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 04:35:37 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40274) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZefWX-0004kV-21 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 04:35:33 -0400 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C35AC461E9 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from redhat.com (vpn1-7-186.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.7.186]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t8N8ZUke004275 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 04:35:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:35:29 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20150923083529.GK15421@redhat.com> References: <1442939759-9862-1-git-send-email-berrange@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1442939759-9862-1-git-send-email-berrange@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: describe the QEMU build system structure / design Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 05:35:59PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Developers who are new to QEMU, or have a background familiarity > with GNU autotools can have trouble getting their head around the > home-grown QEMU build system. This document attempts to explain > the structure / design of the configure script and the various > Makefile pieces that live across the source tree. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange > --- > docs/build-system.txt | 493 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 493 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 docs/build-system.txt Thanks for all the feedback on this. I won't reply to all the mails individually, I'll simply address all the feedback given and post a v2 later. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|