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

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 22/01/2013 15:59, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
> Why not seriously default to ./build/ for build products and get rid of
> class in-tree builds?
> 
> The build still happens inside the working tree by default but it will
> be in a dedicated ./build/ directory.  We can easily rm -rf that
> directory to eliminate all build products.
> 
> The only downside I see is existing developers, packagers, and testers
> having to get used to ./build/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 and
> friends.

Packagers are excluded, since "make install" would abstract them from
the change.

> I think it's worth it if we can eliminate these time-consuming build
> system glitches.

Well, "patches are welcome". :) Using out-of-tree builds is what you'd
do for all other projects.

Paolo