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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

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