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 09:23, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 16/09/2014 18:20, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>>> > - 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.
>
> 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?

-- PMM