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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] makefile: detect corrupted elf files
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>

Il 22/05/2013 11:42, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:22:52AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 22/05/2013 10:52, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
>>> The fix is simple here: don't use ccache.  I don't.
>>>
>>> In fact, from what I saw people use ccache to work around makefile bugs,
>>> so they can do make clean; make and have it finish quickly.
>>>
>>> Any other examples?
>>
>> Testing configure patches should be done (also) from a clean build
>> directory, for example.
>>
>> Paolo
> 
> In fact, relying on make clean for testing the build
> system is a mistake.  It's easy for it to forget to
> remove some temporary file. You really should do
> a clean clone.

Yes, I use a clean clone (and a clean build directory for each patch),
_hence_ ccache helps reducing test times.

Paolo