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

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 7:13 PM Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 07/03/19 14:09, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 12:56, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> In any case, this wouldn't change; as you suggest below, configure could
> >> remain as a front-end (well, in-srcdir builds are not supported by
> >> Meson, so "../configure && ninja" perhaps).
> >
> > 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. :)

As someone who has also been annoyed having to support in-tree and
out-of-tree, I support that move. I used to be a pretty happy use of
in-tree builds, but out-of-tree his generally equally convenient.

Who is volunteering to do patches to deprecate the support? warning in
4.0, and error in 4.1?

thanks