[libvirt] RFC: should we mandate use of VPATH builds ?

[Peter Krempa]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 13:29:35 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> One of the things we (well I) constantly screw up is VPATH builds. I've
> always tended to just build in the source tree, and as a result I'll
> often miss changes which break VPATH builds.

I vote for _no_. I mostly use in-tree builds except for when messing
with makefiles.

I think the situation is similar to making contributors running
syntax-check. We document it in multiple places that patches should pass
it yet we get patches that fail it all the time.
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