Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] tests: use g_test_trap_fork for glib between 2.16 and 2.38

[Peter Maydell]

On 16 September 2014 09:33, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> 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