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


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson?
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 16:26:43 +0000

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 16:17, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 3/8/19 6:03 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > 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
>
> Lots of work to just throw away if we plan on doing a flag day in 4.1.
> But necessary if you want 4.0 to still support in-tree builds for one
> last hurrah.

It turned out not to be that much work:
https://patchew.org/QEMU/address@hidden/address@hidden/

thanks
-- PMM



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