On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 14:26, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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.
Consensus in the thread seemed to lean towards having the 'configure/make' runes auto-create a build directory; if we want to do that we should probably not say anything in the release notes, because we'll cause people to change unnecessarily. Or at least have them say "We recommend out-of-tree builds. In future we might make the commands that currently do an in-tree build automatically create and use a build directory for you." rather than a blanket "we're going to drop this and you should change what you do now". Thoughts? thanks -- PMM
