Re: deprecation of in-tree builds

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 14:30, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Am 20.08.2020 um 13:56 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
> > The Meson conversion was announced in October 2019 as breaking in-tree
> > builds, and the deprecation request is from March 2020.  So I don't
> > think this is a breakage but rather a widely-announced change.
>
> Wasn't the decision after that discussion that we do _not_ want to
> deprecate './configure; make' from the source directory?
>
> I seem to remember that we wanted to merge a message to make a
> recommendation for out-of-tree builds, but looking at configure, I can't
> find even that.

We opted not to do that or to mark out-of-tree builds as deprecated
in the release notes, because the outcome of the discussion was
that we wanted to retain the support for 'run configure and make
from the source tree'.

thanks
-- PMM