From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson?
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 12:21:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190308122118.GF19819@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81f2035b-f584-f9b7-e6af-4754707b2f17@redhat.com>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-08 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-06 18:12 [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson? Paolo Bonzini
2019-03-06 18:50 ` Marc-André Lureau
2019-03-06 21:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-03-07 10:29 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-03-07 6:39 ` Thomas Huth
2019-03-07 10:13 ` Peter Maydell
2019-03-07 11:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-03-07 11:29 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-03-07 11:32 ` Peter Maydell
2019-03-07 11:49 ` Marc-André Lureau
2019-03-07 11:33 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-03-10 14:21 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-03-10 14:33 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-03-11 16:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-03-07 10:18 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-03-07 10:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-03-07 10:48 ` Peter Maydell
2019-03-07 11:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-03-07 10:49 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-03-07 10:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-03-07 11:54 ` Alex Bennée
2019-03-07 12:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-03-07 13:09 ` Peter Maydell
2019-03-07 13:22 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-03-07 18:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-03-07 18:17 ` Marc-André Lureau
2019-03-07 18:18 ` Peter Maydell
2019-03-07 18:19 ` Peter Maydell
2019-03-07 19:23 ` BALATON Zoltan
2019-03-07 19:50 ` Eric Blake
2019-03-07 20:28 ` Liviu Ionescu
2019-03-08 12:19 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-03-07 19:04 ` Eric Blake
2019-03-07 19:24 ` Eric Blake
2019-03-08 12:21 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2019-03-07 18:20 ` Alex Bennée
2019-03-08 6:47 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-03-08 6:58 ` Thomas Huth
2019-03-08 10:31 ` Peter Maydell
2019-03-08 11:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-03-08 12:03 ` Peter Maydell
2019-03-08 16:17 ` Eric Blake
2019-03-08 16:26 ` Peter Maydell
2019-03-08 16:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-03-08 16:36 ` Peter Maydell
2019-03-11 1:09 ` Neal Gompa
2019-03-07 19:05 ` Cleber Rosa
2019-03-10 16:33 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-03-10 16:28 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-03-11 6:42 ` Thomas Huth
2019-03-11 10:14 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-04-18 8:21 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-04-18 8:21 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-04-18 8:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-04-18 8:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-27 16:16 ` [Qemu-devel] Status update on Meson features needed by QEMU Paolo Bonzini
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