Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1] configure: require glib-2.24

[Eric Blake]

On 04/18/2018 07:47 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 02:38:37PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> Since usage of g_realloc_n was introduced, glib-2.22 can not be used anymore.
>> Fixes commit 418026ca43 ("util: Introduce vfio helpers")
> 
> Normally we expect ./include/glib-compat.h to be changed in this scenario
> to add compat for the missing symbol.

Or rewrite the offending addition of g_realloc_n to use something like
g_renew that IS available in 2.22 (this is not the first time the issue
has appeared; see commit 071d405, for example).

> 
> IIRC, one of Peters desired build targets required 2.22, but I guess we
> missed this bug because that platform would not enable vfio functionality ?

Which platform?  CentOS 6 is at glib 2.28; we also require 2.30 for
building on mingw.  I'm not seeing an easy document that says which
distros we still actively support, and which culprit distro has the
oldest glib.

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