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 08:43, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Glib recently introduced a robust way to run tests in a subprocess,
> which is used in test-qdev-global-props.  However, we would like
> to have the same tests run with older versions of glib, and the
> older fork-based mechanisms works well enough.
>
> This still requires:
>
> - bumping the minimum required version from 2.12 to 2.16.  I suggest
> bumping to the currently required version for Windows, which is 2.20
> (released March 2009).

The commit message for a52d28afb suggests that this bump would be
dropping support for RHEL5. That doesn't seem like a great idea
to me, especially if it's only for the benefit of a test program.

On the other hand your patch doesn't actually bump the required
version, so I'm a bit confused.

-- PMM