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Currently the search path is 1. source dir corresponding to input file (implicit by compiler) 2. top level build dir 3. top level source dir 4. top level source include/ dir 5. source dir corresponding to input file 6. build dir corresponding to output file Search item 5 is an effective no-op, since it duplicates item 1. When srcdir == builddir, item 6 also duplicates item 1, which causes a semantic difference between VPATH and non-VPATH builds. Thus to ensure consistent semantics we need item 6 to be present immediately after item 1. e.g. 1. source dir corresponding to input file (implicit by compiler) 2. build dir corresponding to output file 3. top level build dir 4. top level source dir 5. top level source include/ dir When srcdir == builddir, items 1 & 2 collapse into one, and items 3 & 4 collapse into one, but the overall search order is still consistent with srcdir != builddir A further complication is that while most of the source files are built with a current directory of $BUILD_DIR, target dependant files are built with a current directory of $BUILD_DIR/$TARGET. As a result, search item 2 resolves to a different location for target independant vs target dependant files. For example when building 'migration/ram.o', the use of '-I$(@D)' (which expands to '-Imigration') would not find '$BUILD_DIR/migration', but rather '$BUILD_DIR/$TARGET/migration'. If there are generated headers files to be used by the migration code in '$BUILD_DIR/migration', these will not be found by the relative include, an absolute include is needed instead. This has not been a problem so far, since nothing has been generating headers in sub-dirs, but the trace code will shortly be doing that. So it is needed to list '-I$(BUILD_DIR)/$(@D)' as well as '-I$(@D)' to ensure both directories are searched when building target dependant code. So the search order ends up being: 1. source dir corresponding to input file (implicit by compiler) 2. build dir corresponding to output file (absolute) 3. build dir corresponding to output file (relative to cwd) 4. top level build dir 5. top level source dir 6. top level source include/ dir One final complication is that the absolute '-I$(BUILD_DIR)/$(@D)' will sometimes end up pointing to a non-existant directory if that sub-dir does not have any target-independant files to be built. Rather than try to dynamically filter this, a simple 'mkdir' ensures $(BUILD_DIR)/$(@D) is guaranteed to exist at all times. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170125161417.31949-2-berrange@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Mac
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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