Re: [Qemu-devel] Build Broken?

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 13 May 2014 19:34:53 +0400
Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> wrote:

> 13.05.2014 18:17, Tom Musta wrote:
> > The current origin/master is not building for me:
> > 
> >   LINK  qemu-img
> > qemu-img.o: In function `add_format_to_seq':
> > /bghome/tmusta/powerisa/qemu/qemu/qemu-img.c:73: undefined reference to 
> > `g_sequence_lookup'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make: *** [qemu-img] Error 1
> []
> > It appears that this code is dependent on glib.h function that is newer 
> > than one of my build systems
> > (RHEL 6 update 5, gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4))
> > 
> > Is this a known limitation?  i.e. is QEMU 2.1 going to prereq a newer 
> > version of glib2?
> 
> If we're going to require more recent glib (g_sequence_lookup() first 
> appeared in 2.26),
> let's require at least 2.31 with the new threading primitives as well.

It seems that would leave qemu unbuildable on the various "Enterprise"
distros. I have glib 2.22.5 on a SLES11SP3, and from this it seems
RHEL6.5 has an older glib as well.