On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 17:56, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Meson requires the build dir to be separate from the source tree. Many > people are used to just running "./configure && make" though and the > meson conversion breaks that. > > This introduces some backcompat support to make it appear as if an > "in source tree" build is being done, but with the the results in the > "build/" directory. This allows "./configure && make" to work as it > did historically, albeit with the output binaries staying under build/. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> > ---
Oh, one more minor thing: 'make distclean' should remove the created GNUMakefile (and also build/ if configure created it? dunno). thanks -- PMM
