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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:24:07PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 3/7/19 1:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> > I don't mind a switch to mandatory out-of-tree builds (I like the
> > convenience of in-tree for quick hacks, but VPATH is infinitely more
> > flexible when testing multiple build configurations in parallel, and
> > I've worked on other projects with mandatory VPATH builds without seeing
> > too many complaints there).
> 
> I will add: The GNU Coding Standards require both in-tree and
> out-of-tree builds to work (and you get that with Autotool'd projects).

You only get it with autotools if you are good at writing Makefile.ams :-)
libvirt frequently breaks VPATH by accident when using autotools by
missing $(srcdir) prefixes on paths.

Regards,
Daniel
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