Il 22/01/2013 15:59, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto: > Why not seriously default to ./build/ for build products and get rid of > class in-tree builds? > > The build still happens inside the working tree by default but it will > be in a dedicated ./build/ directory. We can easily rm -rf that > directory to eliminate all build products. > > The only downside I see is existing developers, packagers, and testers > having to get used to ./build/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 and > friends.
Packagers are excluded, since "make install" would abstract them from the change. > I think it's worth it if we can eliminate these time-consuming build > system glitches. Well, "patches are welcome". :) Using out-of-tree builds is what you'd do for all other projects. Paolo
