Re: [Qemu-devel] trace: weird issues with makefile dependencies

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 January 2013 10:00, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:42:54PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> I have no idea whether we can make qemu's build process more
>> resistant to that kind of diachronic change, but I mention it
>> anyway :-)
>
> Yes, this is an annoying weakness in the build system.  But I think we
> should not solve it with more make sophistication because we seem
> incapable of handling the current level of complexity already :).

I was wondering if we should put common object files and other
generated things in a common-objs/ subdir. Then distclean could
just remove common-objs/ *-softmmu *-linux-user and definitely
blow away anything generated. (Or we could just ban in-tree builds?)

-- PMM