On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:28:03AM -0700, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 16 September 2014 09:23, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Il 16/09/2014 18:20, Peter Maydell ha scritto: > >>> > - bumping the minimum required version from 2.12 to 2.16. I suggest > >>> > bumping to the currently required version for Windows, which is 2.20 > >>> > (released March 2009). > >> The commit message for a52d28afb suggests that this bump would be > >> dropping support for RHEL5. That doesn't seem like a great idea > >> to me, especially if it's only for the benefit of a test program. > > > > Though you would just drop support for "make check" on RHEL5. Even > > "make -k check" would roughly work. > > Can't we just put in the makefile and configure magic to skip > the test if the glib version is too old for it? > > -- PMM
That's exactly what my patch did. See 20140916144324.ga7...@redhat.com You prefer that then?
