Re: minimal "zero conf" build dockerfiles for fedora:latest and alpine:latest

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

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