On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 08:50:34PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > AIUI from Paolo, the intention is to deprecate and eventually > stop supporting "in-tree" builds, so that the only option is > building in a separate build directory. I thought we should > probably mention that in the 5.0 changelog, so I wrote up some > text: > > https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.0#Build_Information > > Suggestions for changes/comments etc welcome. > > (One thing we will need to fix before we can do separate build > tree is the Coverity Scan build process, which (a) does an > in-tree build (b) can't be easily switched to a builddir because > all the source paths get baked into the scan results and moving > to a builddir changes them all...) > > We could also make configure actively warn if used in > the source tree.
I've submitted a patch to add such a warning, copying everyone who has responded in this thread. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
