Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] build: Create needed folders without dependency tracking

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:35:55PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: >On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 15:30:21 +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > >This is actually a v2 AFAIK. > The v1 was probably not from me, there were several attempts. >>The parameter --disable-dependency-tracking is supposed to speed up >>one-time build due to the fact that it disables some dependency >>extractors that, apparently, take longer time to execute. That is a >>problem for code that is generated into builddir (especially some >>specific subdirectory) because the directory it should be installed to >>does not exists in VPATH and without the dependency tracking is not >>created. Generating such file hence fails with -ENOENT. In order to >>keep generating files into builddir instead of srcdir, we must create >>the directory ourselves. This should finally fix the problem that is >>being fixed multiple times since its introduction in commit a9fe62037214 >>and let us continue with cleaning those parts of Makefiles that depend >>on generating files into the srcdir rather than builddir as it should >>be. > >Not sure whether the last sentence is worth to be in the commit message. > I'll remove it.