Re: [PATCH v2] configure: add support for pseudo-"in source tree" builds

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 21/08/20 12:04, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> So I'm not sure why the first build gets as far as it does, but does NOT
>> complete things and yet does not fail make, but my advice is that you should
>> NOT try to an incremental build on in-tree build when crossing the meson
>> epoch.  If you are a fan of in-tree convenience, you need a ONE-TIME
>> distclean when pulling in these changes (the fact that you HAVE to clean up
>> trace.h files to merge in the meson stuff should be a hint for that).  After
>> that has been done, you can go back to pretending meson supports in-tree.
> Sounds like it will be painful to switch between branches based on make
> and branches based on meson. By extension, it will also be painful to
> check out and build old versions for comparison, or doing that even more
> than once during git bisect. :-(

Not if you switch to out-of-tree builds...

Paolo