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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] Force object directory use
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:39:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE459B8.7050204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimnrn0xi=EGj+h_gHrA_bYSU=MKwV0=jNyhaMB2@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/17/2010 09:08 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> It's not simplification but to unify the build system. Some people
> make changes to Makefiles and then test their changes without an
> object directory, these may then break the build for those who use it.
> This has happened several times already. Hopefully we can avoid those
> breakages with this change.

It happens very rarely, and the last time it was because the wrong patch 
was committed IIUC.  It may be unified but it's pretty much unlike every 
other build system I've ever seen.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17 19:15 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Force object directory use Blue Swirl
2010-11-17 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-11-17 20:08   ` Blue Swirl
2010-11-17 22:39     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2010-11-17 23:05       ` Peter Maydell
2010-11-17 23:51         ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-11-17 23:57       ` Anthony Liguori

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