Re: [PATCH] configure: add support for psuedo-"in source tree" builds

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 07:15:03PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 17:56, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Meson requires the build dir to be separate from the source tree. Many
> > people are used to just running "./configure && make" though and the
> > meson conversion breaks that.
> >
> > This introduces some backcompat support to make it appear as if an
> > "in source tree" build is being done, but with the the results in the
> > "build/" directory. This allows "./configure && make" to work as it
> > did historically, albeit with the output binaries staying under build/.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> 
> Oh, one more minor thing: 'make distclean' should remove
> the created GNUMakefile (and also build/ if configure
> created it? dunno).

Yes, I mistakenly put that logic for "make clean" in this v1. My v2
has fixed this, and in v3 i'll remove the "GNUMakefile" too.


Regards,
Daniel
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