Re: [Qemu-devel] converting build system to Meson?

[Eric Blake]

On 3/8/19 6:03 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 11:58, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:31:20AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> I think in fact I have just broken in-tree builds with the
>>> Sphinx support patchset :-/
>>
>> Great opportunity!  Stop supporting in-tree build fixes a bug,
>> so this can be merged post soft-freeze.
> 
> Joking aside, this is quite tempting, because Sphinx simply
> does not support building into the same directory as its
> source documentation files. So we need to either:
>  * create an ad-hoc build directory (eg docs/built)
>    where Sphinx builds the docs to if we're doing an
>    in-tree build, and have the 'make install' phase pull
>    the docs out of there

Lots of work to just throw away if we plan on doing a flag day in 4.1.
But necessary if you want 4.0 to still support in-tree builds for one
last hurrah.

>  * declare in-tree builds to be no longer supported at all

Moves the flag day a bit sooner (today! surprise!), but I can live with
this.

How long do we wait for objections, or should we pull the trigger?

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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