On 2012-01-23 21:08, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/23/2012 01:25 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: >> Am 23.01.2012 20:19, schrieb Jan Kiszka: >>> On 2012-01-23 20:16, Stefan Weil wrote: >>>> Am 23.01.2012 19:38, schrieb Jan Kiszka: >>>> >> [snip] >>>> What about replacing the whole script by a python script? >>>> That would save about 6 more forks :-) >>> >>> I think we have no python dependency in the build system yet - while we >>> have for awk. That was also the original reason to go for a shell >>> script. >>> >>> If the situation changed, I would not vote against python, for sure. >>> >>> Jan >> >> We do. Even configure will fail now without Python: >> >> if ! has $python; then >> echo "Python not found. Use --python=/path/to/python" >> exit 1 >> fi >> >> QEMU depends on Python = Python 2 for QAPI, tracing and maybe more. >> See scripts/*.py. > > I've been thinking that we could potentially rewrite a large chunk > (all?) of configure in python too since we have such a hard dependency now.
Sounds almost like a GSoC project. Or work for someone who did something nasty ;). At least it's no afternoon hack when done properly. However, I will now write signrom.py. That's much shorter. Jan
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