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From: | Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: | Re: minimal "zero conf" build dockerfiles for fedora:latest and alpine:latest |
Date: | Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:35:09 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 |
On 13/01/21 11:29, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
On 1/13/21 11:09 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:Hi,I don't like Perl really, but there's a chicken-and-egg problem between detecting Python and using it to print the configure help script. For configure-time tasks, Perl has the advantage that "#! /usr/bin/env perl" just works.Assuming perl is actually installed, the world seems to shift to python. On a minimal fedora install python is present but perl is not ... On the other hand git depends on perl, so it is probably pretty hard to find a developer workstation without perl installed, so maybe that doesn't matter much for the time being.There is also the new configure-parse-buildoptions.pl script Paolo wants to add: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg770651.html
Yes, that's what I was referring to. shaderinclude.pl could be converted easily to Python, and I do support in general moving from Perl to Python. For configure-parse-buildoptions.pl I viewed Perl as more of a necessary evil.
In the case of scripts/tap-driver.pl, the plan is to use "meson test" instead as soon as it becomes featureful enough. I have already switched my private branch to it, the upstream meson work is tracked at https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/7830.
Paolo
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