Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: require glib 2.12, 2.20 for mingw32

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 04/05/12 13:01, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> These are pretty sane requirements to move forward with glib usage.
> 2.12 is the version found in RHEL/CentOS 5, and 2.20 is the
> first version to support g_poll.  Without g_poll, we cannot
> integrate well with the glib main loop.

We have a glib-related rhel5 build failure though:

  CC    qapi/qmp-input-visitor.o
qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c: In function ‘qmp_input_pop’:
qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c:92: error: ‘GHashTableIter’ undeclared (first
use in this function)
qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c:92: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported only once
qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c:92: error: for each function it appears in.)
qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c:92: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘iter’
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c:96: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘g_hash_table_iter_init’
qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c:96: warning: nested extern declaration of
‘g_hash_table_iter_init’
qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c:96: error: ‘iter’ undeclared (first use in this
function)
qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c:97: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘g_hash_table_iter_next’
qapi/qmp-input-visitor.c:97: warning: nested extern declaration of
‘g_hash_table_iter_next’
make: *** [qapi/qmp-input-visitor.o] Error 1

Guess 2.12 just hasn't hash tables yet, so we have to figure whenever we
want raise the minimum glib version or stop using glib hash tables.

cheers,
  Gerd