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

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 11:58, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:31:20AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > I think in fact I have just broken in-tree builds with the
> > Sphinx support patchset :-/
>
> Great opportunity!  Stop supporting in-tree build fixes a bug,
> so this can be merged post soft-freeze.

Joking aside, this is quite tempting, because Sphinx simply
does not support building into the same directory as its
source documentation files. So we need to either:
 * create an ad-hoc build directory (eg docs/built)
   where Sphinx builds the docs to if we're doing an
   in-tree build, and have the 'make install' phase pull
   the docs out of there
 * declare in-tree builds to be no longer supported at all

thanks
-- PMM