Re: [PATCH] coverity_scan: switch to vpath build

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

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 14:27, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/22/20 3:18 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > This comment at the top of the script:
> >
> > # This script assumes that you're running it from a QEMU source
> > # tree, and that tree is a fresh clean one, because we do an in-tree
> > # build. (This is necessary so that the filenames that the Coverity
> > # Scan server sees are relative paths that match up with the component
> > # regular expressions it uses; an out-of-tree build won't work for this.)
> >
> > is now out of date and needs rephrasing.
>
> Or we can keep it as it, since commit dedad027205
> ("configure: add support for pseudo-"in source tree" builds")
> already create a 'build/' directory.

No, because even with the pseudo-in-tree build the paths will
no longer be the relative ones that the real pre-meson in-tree
build had, so the comment is no longer correct.

thanks
-- PMM