[Qemu-devel] Re: Re: [PATCH] Fix checksum writing in signboot.sh

[Sebastian Herbszt]

Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 02.08.2009, at 13:15, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > But then you have to write those tools in C, which is annoying.
>
> Right. In fact we just switched from C to sh for portability reasons.

I though the switch was made because Anthony didn't like running just compiled
code in the build process [1][2].

I guess the C code was most portable anyway because it didn't introduce new
dependencies.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-07/msg00051.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-07/msg00103.html

- Sebastian