On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Stefan Weil wrote: > It's common to use either out-of-tree builds or in-tree builds, > but not to mix both variants with a common root directory. > I think QEMU should explicitly forbid that mixed scenario (like > other projects do). > > Even with your fix there can remain problems with generated > header files.
Really? Can you provide more specific details? > The mixed scenario creates unnecessary complexity. > Without the mixed scenario, your patch is not needed. I agree that supporting the mixed scenario shouldn't be a priority. However without this last patch a "make clean" on the main tree is not enough to allow out of tree builds. Try the following scenario: - cd qemu; ./configure; make - make clean - cd ../temp; ./configure --source-path=../qemu; make this has to work, right? It does not without the patch to fix the generation of config-devices.mak.
