Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson?

[Thomas Huth]

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