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

[Andreas Färber]

Am 23.01.2012 21:37, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 01/23/2012 02:32 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-01-23 21:08, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> I've been thinking that we could potentially rewrite a large chunk
>>> (all?) of configure in python too since we have such a hard
>>> dependency now.
>>
>> Sounds almost like a GSoC project.
> 
> That's a good idea!

Having a signrom.py, driven by configure or make, is fine.

But configure should be able to run anywhere and at least report what's
missing. #!/bin/sh is the standard, highly compatible mechanism among
Unices, Posices and more to do just that. Python on the other hand is
either /usr/bin/python or /usr/bin/env python, which both don't work on
systems without /usr/bin for starters.

So please not all of configure, at least detect and/or allow to
overwrite the python path.

Andreas

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