[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix *-user build error

[Paul Bolle]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 15:56 +0200, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Paul Bolle <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:01 +0200, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >> Paul Bolle <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Why doesn't "make clean" do what one expects it to do? Can't it be made
> > to behave properly?
> 
> Not trivial.
> foo-softmmu/config.h got renamed foo-softmmu/config-target.h
> now a new config.h got created at toplevel directory, that includes
> config-target.h (and more things, that is the whore reason why it was
> created).
> 
> Adding removal of foo-softmmu/config.h to the Makefile is an option, but
> this is a "once" affair, i.e. it is only needed if you have ever
> compiled in that directory.  Both options are bad:
> - add a removal of foo-softmmu/config.h that is not generated at all
> - require users to removal config.h once
> 
> 2nd one was adopted, both have disadvantages, just different ones.
> The other option was to rename config.h to something different, but that
> was a BIIIIIIIG patch for no gain either :(

I see. All that basically happened was that this rename etc. took place
in a repository in which I had previously built qemu and I should not
run into this issue anymore. Thanks.


Paul