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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:15:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Someone kill the in-tree build,
 please (was:  MIPS qemu build failure)
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>, Steve Ellcey <sellcey@imgtec.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 18 September 2015 at 13:06, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> writes:
>> You have your build directory *outside* the QEMU source tree,
>> eg $GIT/../build, whereas I had been testing with $GIT/build
>> and an non-VPATH build.

> Dropping the in-tree build entirely would save us from such unnecessary
> build breakages.

No it wouldn't, because neither "build in $GIT/build" nor
"build in ../build" are in-tree build configs (which would
be "build in $GIT" and which I agree we don't really want to
encourage).

thanks
-- PMM