Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/30] Misc patches for 2018-05-09

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 May 2018 at 13:42, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 01:19:51PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Some of my build setups barf on the new glib version requirement:
>>
>>  * my aarch64 build host (a gcc compile farm machine which is running
>>    Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS and has glib 2.40.2)
>
> That is expected - per the policy we only aim to support the most recent,
> and most recent but one for 2 years overlap. Since LTS releases are two
> years apart, this basically means always just 2 most recent LTS releases
> for Ubuntu. Since we Ubuntu 18.04 LTS came out last month, we don't
> need to continue 14.04 LTS

...well, I could ask the GCC compile farm admins what their
upgrade plans are, but I don't particularly see the need
to impose load on a volunteer set of admins when the distro
they're running is still supported for another year. And I
don't want to drop aarch64 from my build test set.

>>  * my windows cross compile setups (which have glib 2.34.3)
>
> Presumably you're using a Debian host for that ?

Ubuntu.

> The debian-win64-cross.docker job seems to pull in packages from
>
>   deb http://pkg.mxe.cc/repos/apt/debian jessie main
>
> And mxe claims to have glib 2.54

Thanks, I will have a look at this. (They seem to have tarballs
as well as debian packages.)

-- PMM