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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 07:58:41 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson?
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Marc-Andr=c3=a9_Lureau?= <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Alex_Benn=c3=a9e?= <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On 08/03/2019 07.47, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>>> As an aside, it might be a nice idea to drop the in-srcdir
>>> build altogether for QEMU anyway -- it's not really a very
>>> good idea and it means our build system has to cope with two
>>> different ways of working to no particularly useful end.
>>
>> I was actually going to propose that, but I was afraid of throwing two
>> bombs in the same day. :)
> 
> I stopped using in-tree builds years ago.  When test-building different
> configurations using an build/$cfgname out-of-tree build directory is
> the only sane approach.  And IIRC I've managed to break in-tree builds
> because of that.

FWIW, I'm also only doing out-of-tree builds. Thus I'd support a patch,
too, which enforces out of tree builds.

 Thomas