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

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 May 2018 at 13:33, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/05/2018 14:19, 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)
>>  * my windows cross compile setups (which have glib 2.34.3)
>>
>> The latter could probably be fixed, but it will be a pain because
>> gtk.org don't distribute prebuilt glib &c zipfiles usable for cross
>> compile any more. For the former, that LTS is apparently still
>> in support for another year.
>
> Fair enough.  I suppose that for now we can still uniformly bump up to
> 2.34, which is enough to remove all compatibility shims except for a couple.
>
> I'll resend the pull request without that part.

Thanks. If somebody has a recipe for doing mingw32/w64 cross builds
on Ubuntu hosts with a newer glib then I can look at updating
that bit of my build setup...

-- PMM