On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:45:03AM -0700, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 16 September 2014 09:33, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Il 16/09/2014 18:28, Peter Maydell ha scritto: > >>> > 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? > > > > Yes, that's what Michael did (minus the magic to use the older > > fork-based code). But is it really worthwhile to support RHEL5? We > > made glib mandatory in 2011 (around RHEL6.2), and that broke RHEL4. By > > the time the next QEMU release is ready RHEL7.1 should be out, give or > > take a month or so. > > I care because in the EDA tools space things move very slowly > and so RHEL5 is still fairly commonplace. Obviously at some > point we're going to end up dropping support, but "one test > case won't build" seems like a pretty trivial reason to drop > it to me. > > -- PMM
Could you pls tell me whether my patch works, in your testing? My box which had such an old glib seems to be dead.
