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

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?)

In-tree builds are for chumps ;)

Seriously, I wouldn't miss them.