Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/26] qemu-ga patch queue for 2015-09-01

[Peter Maydell]

On 1 September 2015 at 19:33, Michael Roth <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting Peter Maydell (2015-09-01 12:12:39)
>> That function wasn't added to glib until 2.28, and our minimum is
>> 2.22.
>
> Sorry for missing this, will send a v2 shortly.
>
> Do you happen to know a way to check/enforce max version levels for glib
> functions?

The only way I know that works is "do a test compile against 2.22".

> Apparently there's a GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED that serves
> this purpose, but it didn't generate any warnings in this particular
> case:
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Version-Information.html#GLIB-VERSION-MAX-ALLOWED:CAPS
>
> If we could get that working in tree it might help with these glib compat
> issues (which seem to happen fairly frequently)

David Gilbert had a look at that a little while back, but it's
trickier than it first looks.

thanks
-- PMM