Re: [Qemu-devel] [BUG] [low severity] a strange appearance of message involving slirp while doing "empty" make

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 04:59, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 20/03/2019 22.08, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> > $ make
> > make[1]: Entering directory '/home/build/malta-mips64r6/qemu-4.0/slirp'
> > make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/build/malta-mips64r6/qemu-4.0/slirp'
> >       CHK version_gen.h
> > $
> >
> > Not sure how significant is that, but I report it just in case.
>
> It's likely because slirp is currently being reworked to become a
> separate project, so the makefiles have been changed a little bit. I
> guess the message will go away again once slirp has become a stand-alone
> library.

Well, we'll still need to ship slirp for the foreseeable future...

I think the cause of this is that the rule in Makefile for
calling the slirp Makefile is not passing it $(SUBDIR_MAKEFLAGS)
like all the other recursive make invocations. If we do that
then we'll suppress the entering/leaving messages for
non-verbose builds. (Some tweaking will be needed as
it looks like the slirp makefile has picked an incompatible
meaning for $BUILD_DIR, which the SUBDIR_MAKEFLAGS will
also be passing to it.)

thanks
-- PMM