On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:24:07PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 3/7/19 1:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > > I don't mind a switch to mandatory out-of-tree builds (I like the > > convenience of in-tree for quick hacks, but VPATH is infinitely more > > flexible when testing multiple build configurations in parallel, and > > I've worked on other projects with mandatory VPATH builds without seeing > > too many complaints there). > > I will add: The GNU Coding Standards require both in-tree and > out-of-tree builds to work (and you get that with Autotool'd projects).
You only get it with autotools if you are good at writing Makefile.ams :-) libvirt frequently breaks VPATH by accident when using autotools by missing $(srcdir) prefixes on paths. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
