From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33192) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1rGV-0003ZU-2C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 06:32:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1rGU-00011b-Ce for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 06:32:43 -0500 Received: from mail-ot1-x32b.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::32b]:37136) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1rGU-00011H-5u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 06:32:42 -0500 Received: by mail-ot1-x32b.google.com with SMTP id b3so13767451otp.4 for ; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 03:32:41 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3246431b-8d6e-f2bc-e0f0-99d80384d97b@redhat.com> <9fb589af-a78e-6eeb-ca1c-a5049c5ac5ab@redhat.com> <20190307112933.GA2853@work-vm> In-Reply-To: <20190307112933.GA2853@work-vm> From: Peter Maydell Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 11:32:29 +0000 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Cc: Thomas Huth , Paolo Bonzini , Richard Henderson , qemu-devel , =?UTF-8?B?TWFyYy1BbmRyw6kgTHVyZWF1?= On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 11:29, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > Pretty regularly I just give up on build directories and recreate > them because of changes that our Makefiles haven't realised > when updating a tree. > (I can't say it's any one fault anywhere) That's usually the awkward problem of "newer version of the build rules doesn't work when it starts against older version of the built objects" or similar. Does Meson do a better job about handling that situation? thanks -- PMM