Re: [PULL v6 000/150] Meson-based build system

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 20:44, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 19/08/20 21:04, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> is it really that important? We've changed single target build
> >> rules already (from subdir-x86_64-softmmu to x86_64-softmmu/all
> >> for one), which broke quite some mostly automatic build
> >> systems which needed some fixing. Moving executables isn't a
> >> big deal after that, methinks..
> > It breaks my setups and also my muscle memory for where
> > executables live. So this is the limit of how much I'm
> > willing to allow Meson to mess us around, I think.
>
> It's totally possible to accomodate this and I appreciate the help and
> effort you're putting into something that you (understandably) are not
> too confident in.
>
> However, this change was already in the first series that was posted
> like a year ago...

It's a hundred-and-fifty patch series, and I can't review everything.
I took it on trust that it would be basically a drop-in replacement
for our current makefile setup.

thanks
-- PMM