Re: [Qemu-devel] glib-compat tales of woe

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/04/2015 15:15, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> After some updates were applied on our SLES11SP3 development server,
> current qemu fails to build:
> 
> In file included from /home/cohuck/git/qemu/include/qemu-common.h:43,
>                  from /home/cohuck/git/qemu/qapi/qapi-visit-core.c:14:
> /home/cohuck/git/qemu/include/glib-compat.h:35: error: static declaration of 
> ‘g_get_monotonic_time’ follows non-static declaration
> /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmain.h:236: error: previous declaration of 
> ‘g_get_monotonic_time’ was here
> 
> 
> and so on.
> 
> pkg-config reports a glib-2.0 version of 2.22.5 - but the SLES
> development package contains a helpfully backported version of
> g_get_monotonic_time, which you wouldn't know from the reported version.
> 
> Question: How do we deal with problems like this?

We call our compat wrapper qemu_g_get_monotonic_time and add a helpful
#define.  Not done so far because nobody ever thought it was necessary. :)

Paolo