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
