On 24 January 2017 at 17:28, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > Maybe we should change the include order to always prefer > the build tree files if there?
If we can do that it would be nice. > An alternative is to do what Linux does, create a > file in tree when doing a build, and then make an > out of tree one fail and suggest distclean. We already try to do that -- Makefile looks for config-host.mak in the source tree and suggests a rune involving distclean. The check isn't perfect, though (and nor is the Linux kernel's -- I lost an hour or so the other week to a problem that turned out to be stale junk in the kernel source tree that I fixed with a 'make mrproper'). thanks -- PMM
