Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Automatically convert configure options to meson build options

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 06:00:11PM +0800, 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 5:58 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 12:05:31PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > - because we parse command-line options before meson is available,
> > > the introspection output is stored in the source tree.  The output
> > > is slightly modified using the "jq" tool in order to ensure that it's
> > > stable and that modifications to meson_buildoptions.txt do not cause
> > > horrible conflicts.  This is the main reason for the unattractive
> > > diffstat (the number of JSON lines added is higher than the number
> > > of configure lines removed, though of course the latter are code
> > > that must be maintained manually and the former is not).
> >
> > Does this add a build dependency on jq? Is it possible to use a Python
> > script or even a command-line one-liner instead?
> What's jq stands for, is that a perl script?

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

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