Re: usage of g_test_fail() which is introduced in Glib 2.30

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Syam,

> In the latest Bluez snapshot I'm getting the g_test_fail compilation
> error. The problem
> happens because we use the Glib minimum version requirement
> as 2.28 and this API is introduced in GLib version 2.30.
> Do we need to use the g_test_fail() now with Glib 2.28?
> I guess we cannot replace it with a wrapper function.
> 
> 
> Possible Patch:
> 
> From: Syam Sidhardhan <s.syam@samsung.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:22:00 -0300
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] unit: Remove g_test_fail()
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> g_test_fail() is introduced in Glib v2.30 and we are using
> Glib v2.28 as the minimum requirement for the build.
> This patch resolves the compilation error that happen with
> Glib version < 2.30.
> 
> Error log:
>   CC     unit/test-mgmt.o
> unit/test-mgmt.c: In function ‘check_actions’:
> unit/test-mgmt.c:100:2: error: implicit declaration of
>     function ‘g_test_fail’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> make[1]: *** [unit/test-mgmt.o] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ---
>  unit/test-mgmt.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/unit/test-mgmt.c b/unit/test-mgmt.c
> index 2d1a5d6..6b3689c 100644
> --- a/unit/test-mgmt.c
> +++ b/unit/test-mgmt.c
> @@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ static void check_actions(struct context *context,
>  	}
> 
>  	g_test_message("Command not handled\n");
> -	g_test_fail();
>  }

lets just use g_assert to fail here.

I assumed g_test_fail lets you gracefully fail, but that is just bogus
as I learned the hard way. So no point in bothering here.

Regards

Marcel