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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