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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] Force object directory use
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 11/18/2010 12:05 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> >  It may be unified but it's pretty much unlike every other
>> >  build system I've ever seen.
> If you want another approach you could do what glibc does (IIRC),
> which is to just give an error message if you invoke configure in
> the source directory suggesting that you run it in a separate build
> directory.

Yes, that would be better.

Paolo