[PULL 07/35] meson: replace Perl usage with Python

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>

Let's try to remove Perl usage during build time.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230110132700.833690-5-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

diff --git a/tests/qapi-schema/meson.build b/tests/qapi-schema/meson.build
index 9dfe98bc9a..d85b14f28c 100644
--- a/tests/qapi-schema/meson.build
+++ b/tests/qapi-schema/meson.build
@@ -259,22 +259,23 @@ if build_docs
   # Fix possible inconsistency in line endings in generated output and
   # in the golden reference (which could otherwise cause test failures
   # on Windows hosts). Unfortunately diff --strip-trailing-cr
-  # is GNU-diff only. The odd-looking perl is because we must avoid
+  # is GNU-diff only. The odd-looking python is because we must avoid
   # using an explicit '\' character in the command arguments to
   # a custom_target(), as Meson will unhelpfully replace it with a '/'
   # (https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1564)
+  remove_cr = [python, '-c', 'import sys;[sys.stdout.write(line.replace(chr(13), "")) for line in sys.stdin]']
   qapi_doc_out_nocr = custom_target('QAPI rST doc newline-sanitized',
                                     output: ['doc-good.txt.nocr'],
                                     input: qapi_doc_out[0],
                                     build_by_default: true,
-                                    command: ['perl', '-pe', '$x = chr 13; s/$x$//', '@INPUT@'],
+                                    command: [remove_cr, '@INPUT@'],
                                     capture: true)
 
   qapi_doc_ref_nocr = custom_target('QAPI rST doc reference newline-sanitized',
                                     output: ['doc-good.ref.nocr'],
                                     input: files('doc-good.txt'),
                                     build_by_default: true,
-                                    command: ['perl', '-pe', '$x = chr 13; s/$x$//', '@INPUT@'],
+                                    command: [remove_cr, '@INPUT@'],
                                     capture: true)
 
   test('QAPI rST doc', diff, args: ['-u', qapi_doc_ref_nocr[0], qapi_doc_out_nocr[0]],
-- 
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