On 11 May 2018 at 13:42, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> 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
