On 08/03/2019 07.47, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >>> 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. :) > > I stopped using in-tree builds years ago. When test-building different > configurations using an build/$cfgname out-of-tree build directory is > the only sane approach. And IIRC I've managed to break in-tree builds > because of that.
FWIW, I'm also only doing out-of-tree builds. Thus I'd support a patch, too, which enforces out of tree builds. Thomas
