Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1838658] [NEW] qemu 4.0.0 broken by glib update

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Public bug reported:
>
> In brief, an install CD will successfully boot with qemu 4.0.0 built with glib 2.58.3, but freeze during boot with qemu 4.0.0 built with glib 2.60.0. I tracked it down to glib's GHashTable improvements. qemu is happy with a glib built from
> ```
>  git checkout -f 2.60.4
>  git revert --no-edit 86c6f7e2b..3bed8a13b
>  git revert --no-edit 75f8ec1df9b48b0c3a13a9125f2c7d7c5adf5159
>  git revert --no-edit 603fb5958..d3074a748
>  git revert --no-edit 0b45ddc55..0600dd322
> ```
> When the GHashTable improvements were committed, there was already a preemptive note about any breakage being due to using private implementation details, hence mentioning it here rather than with glib.
>
> For the full saga, see: http://gnats.netbsd.org/54310

Please quote the preemptive note in full.  I wasted several minutes
looking for it in the supposedly full saga, and in GLib git.  I still
have absolutely no clue what QEMU is doing wrong.

If I read the saga's "Subject: PR/54310 CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/glib2"
part correctly, the GHashTable improvements have been or are being
removed.  Correct?