A massive number of objects depends on QAPI-generated headers. In my
"build everything" tree, it's roughly 4800 out of 5100. This is
particularly annoying when only some of the generated files change,
say for a doc fix.
Improve qapi-gen.py to touch its output files only if they actually
change. Rebuild time for a QAPI doc fix drops from many minutes to a
few seconds. Rebuilds get faster for certain code changes, too. For
instance, adding a simple QMP event now recompiles less than 200
instead of 4800 objects. But adding a QAPI type is as bad as ever;
we've clearly got more work to do.
Backports commit 907b846653fb3757bf2ab98d6d66f92df34d875f from qemu
Whenever qapi-schema.json changes, we run six programs eleven times to
update eleven files. Similar for qga/qapi-schema.json. This is
silly. Replace the six programs by a single program that spits out
all eleven files.
The programs become modules in new Python package qapi, along with the
helper library. This requires moving them to scripts/qapi/. While
moving them, consistently drop executable mode bits.
Backports commit fb0bc835e56b894cbc7236294921e5393c786ad8 from qemu
