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

[Paolo Bonzini]

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.

Paolo