On 11 May 2018 at 13:33, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> 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
