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To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

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.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Stefan
>
>