On 08/05/2018 16:50, George Dunlap wrote: > Tailing into that, with my CentOS package maintainer hat on: You said > that the code in question compiled on RHEL 6 because RH had backported > the function in question. Will QEMU continue to actually compile on > RHEL 6 / CentOS 6? I.e., will configure be checking for that > function, or only checking for the version number?
The latter, because we're also dropping all the compatibility code that allowed QEMU to compile on older glib versions. Paolo > If the former, then the CentOS 6 Xen packages won't be affected. If > the latter, then at some point I'll have to stop updating the Xen > version for CentOS 6 -- but as the CentOS 6 EOL is coming up in 2020, > it shouldn't be too much of a hardship.
