Re: [Qemu-devel] Build Broken?

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 13/05/2014 17:55, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> On 13 May 2014 16:34, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>> 13.05.2014 18:17, Tom Musta wrote:
>>> The current origin/master is not building for me:
>>>
>>>   LINK  qemu-img
>>> qemu-img.o: In function `add_format_to_seq':
>>> /bghome/tmusta/powerisa/qemu/qemu/qemu-img.c:73: undefined reference to `g_sequence_lookup'
>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>> make: *** [qemu-img] Error 1
>> []
>>> It appears that this code is dependent on glib.h function that is newer than one of my build systems
>>> (RHEL 6 update 5, gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4))
>>>
>>> Is this a known limitation?  i.e. is QEMU 2.1 going to prereq a newer version of glib2?
>>
>> If we're going to require more recent glib (g_sequence_lookup() first appeared in 2.26),
>> let's require at least 2.31 with the new threading primitives as well.
>
> This is the wrong end to approach this question from, I think.
> We should start with "which RedHat/Fedora/Debian/SuSE/etc
> distro versions do we need to support?" and then can derive
> the minimum glib version from that.
>
> In particular, if RHEL6 doesn't have a glib with
> g_sequence_lookup I think it's a fairly straightforward
> decision to say we can't use it.

I think we should stick for RHEL5's 2.12 for a few months still, at 
least until RHEL7.0 or 7.1 comes out.  Looks like SLES's 2.22 will be 
the next lowest target.

Paolo