Re: [Qemu-devel] Compile error on FC17

[Peter Maydell]

On 10 March 2013 19:36, Gerhard Wiesinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10.03.2013 18:04, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> This is an example of a longstanding problem we have, where the
>> makefile's dependency rules aren't able to cope with changes to the project
>> source file structure, and so clean, distclean and incremental build
>> sometimes breaks across a git update. I think this is pretty intractable as
>> a problem to solve;

> But shouldn't "make distclean" do the job correctly (even with a changed
> directory structure, at least for some time)?

Yes, I agree that in an ideal world it should. However as I say
I think it's a hard problem to solve in general. Patches welcome
if you have any good ideas :-)

-- PMM