On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > On 07/25/2011 05:15 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Alexandre Raymond<cerb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> This patch fixes a minor bugs which prevented QEMU from being built >>> out of tree. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Raymond<cerb...@gmail.com> >>> --- >>> Makefile | 2 +- >>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> I don't normally use --source-path but it still seems broken to me >> after applying your patch? >> >> $ cd /tmp; mkdir out; cd out >> $ ~/qemu/configure --source-path=$HOME/qemu >> $ make >> GEN config-all-devices.mak >> cat: i386-softmmu/config-devices.mak: No such file or directory >> cat: x86_64-softmmu/config-devices.mak: No such file or directory >> cat: alpha-softmmu/config-devices.mak: No such file or directory >> >> Stefan >> > > Works okay for me with and without the patch if I do a `make distclean` in > $HOME/qemu beforehand. > > Not sure what the trigger is for the breakage Alexandre is trying to > address.
You are right that make distclean in the source directory solves the issue. Intuitively I expect ./configure to re-wire things, make distclean should not be necessary. Alexandre: Can you describe the case where you hit a build issue in more detail? Stefan
