Re: [PATCH] configure: add support for psuedo-"in source tree" builds

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 at 17:56, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Meson requires the build dir to be separate from the source tree. Many
> people are used to just running "./configure && make" though and the
> meson conversion breaks that.
>
> This introduces some backcompat support to make it appear as if an
> "in source tree" build is being done, but with the the results in the
> "build/" directory. This allows "./configure && make" to work as it
> did historically, albeit with the output binaries staying under build/.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---

Oh, one more minor thing: 'make distclean' should remove
the created GNUMakefile (and also build/ if configure
created it? dunno).

thanks
-- PMM