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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] tests: use g_test_trap_fork for glib between 2.16 and 2.38
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:57:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140916165739.GD8628@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9eGTNHAM4486pm97OsfrUqzXUCbUmjrDKNaZ6__e4oKg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:45:03AM -0700, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 16 September 2014 09:33, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@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.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-16 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16 15:43 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] tests: use g_test_trap_fork for glib between 2.16 and 2.38 Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 16:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 16:20 ` Peter Maydell
2014-09-16 16:23   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 16:28     ` Peter Maydell
2014-09-16 16:33       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 16:45         ` Peter Maydell
2014-09-16 16:57           ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2014-09-16 17:23             ` Peter Maydell
2014-09-16 17:54               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 16:43       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-09-16 16:42     ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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