Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] makefile: detect corrupted elf files

[Peter Maydell]

On 26 May 2013 13:31, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:12:21AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> I definitely think individual project makefiles are the wrong place
>> to fix this. If create-as-temp-and-rename is useful functionality
>> it needs to go in the compiler so that everybody benefits.
>
> This will not help users on existing systems.
> Also it's not just compiler. We'd have to do it in linker,
> asm, ... lots of work.

This is clearly less work than implementing it in the makefile
of every single open source project in the world (or even every
single open source project in Debian).

> You are wellcome to implement this in compiler/linker/etc if you like
> but we will still want to handle it in our makefile as well.

I specifically don't want it handled in our makefiles because
it's the wrong place to fix the problem and it will make
our build system more complicated.

-- PMM