Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/11] qapi: add support for lists of native types

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 05/15/13 21:13, mdroth wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:05:58PM -0400, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 May 2013 12:42:24 -0500
>> mdroth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

>>> The only way I've managed to reproduce this is by having a stale
>>> qapi-types.h hanging around in $SRC_DIR while i'm building in a
>>> different $BUILD_DIR. Can you confirm that's not what's happening here?
>>
>> Yes, it was :( I had an old qapi-types.h in $SRC_DIR, but was building
>> in a different $BUILD_DIR. I am really sorry for having wasted your time
>> on this.
>>
>> I've applied this series to qmp-next branch, but I have no idea how I ended
>> up with a qapi-types.h file in $SRC_DIR. I have an alias to build qemu that
>> I use for several months now...
>>
> 
> No problem, only thought to check that scenario because it happens to me
> all the time :)

Side question: what's a common use case for a separate $BUILD_DIR? I
just use "git clean -fdx" in $SRC_DIR instead of "make clean". The need
to reconfigure (and to regenerate my tags file from scratch) is a small
price to pay for the peace of mind.

Thanks
Laszlo