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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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?

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