On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:44:29 +0100 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On 03/03/2015 15:37, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Doesn't build with our minimum glib requirement, I'm afraid: > > > > /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-for-merges/hw/acpi/aml-build.c:313: > > undefined reference to `g_ptr_array_new_with_free_func' > > > > (that function only appeared in glib 2.22.) > > From a few weeks ago: > > > Moving beyond 2.22 would be awkward for me in that my OSX > > box only has 2.22 because fink doesn't have anything newer. > > I could probably deal with that somehow (switching to some > > other package system, probably). > > > > Debian stable is "2.33.12+really2.32.4-5" and oldstable > > is "2.24.2-1" (and if my googling is right is an LTS release). > > > > Ubuntu Lucid (LTS release) is 2.24; Precise (also LTS) > > is 2.32. > > > > Daniel says RHEL6 has 2.28. > > > > That suggests to me that we could reasonably advance to > > 2.22 or 2.24 if it seemed beneficial, but not beyond that. > > Is there anything particularly worthwhile that would get us? > > Maybe we have a candidate now. That function doesn't seem easy to > replace, and it is pretty useful. Looking at git history there were a number of followup fixes where 2.13-2.22 function couldn't be used, if we switch to 2.24 we could cleanup that places also. > > Paolo >
