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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:52:46 +0200
In-Reply-To: <5601B6DD.5070508@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Tue,
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] README: fill out some useful quickstart
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 22/09/2015 10:16, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>
>> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> "To build QEMU, you'd generally [some basic steps that have generally
>>> worked for a long time], but for up-to-date authoritative information,
>>> please do:
>>>
>>> mkdir path_to/build_dir
>>> cd path_to/build_dir
>>> ../../configure
>>> make qemu-doc.html"
>>>
>>> We wind up documenting how to almost do a build anyway.
>
> I don't think this is necessary.  We should remove duplicate information
> from qemu-doc.texi, developer documentation doesn't belong in manuals.

Just to avoid misunderstandings: I wouldn't object to splitting
qemu-doc.texi into a user manual and developer documentation.