Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] signrom: Speed up checksum calculation

[Stefan Weil]

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.

Stefan