Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > AIUI from Paolo, the intention is to deprecate and eventually > stop supporting "in-tree" builds, so that the only option is > building in a separate build directory. I thought we should > probably mention that in the 5.0 changelog, so I wrote up some > text: > > https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.0#Build_Information
Overdue. Thanks for doing this! > Suggestions for changes/comments etc welcome. Looks fine to me. > (One thing we will need to fix before we can do separate build > tree is the Coverity Scan build process, which (a) does an > in-tree build (b) can't be easily switched to a builddir because > all the source paths get baked into the scan results and moving > to a builddir changes them all...) > > We could also make configure actively warn if used in > the source tree. Unless we commit to automatically creating a default out-of-tree build directory for this usage. I wouldn't bother myself.
