From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] Force object directory use
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:57:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE46C03.8060407@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE459B8.7050204@redhat.com>
On 11/17/2010 04:39 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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.
It's not that atypical.
Keep in mind, we already create per-target build directories and use
them. Building the rest of the objects in a different directory isn't
really all that bizarre.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Paolo
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-17 23:58 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
2010-11-17 23:05 ` Peter Maydell
2010-11-17 23:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-11-17 23:57 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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