[Spice-devel] [PATCH v5 1/8] Bump GLib version to 2.34

Frediano Ziglio fziglio at redhat.com
Fri Oct 20 12:34:06 UTC 2017


> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017, 1:40 PM Frediano Ziglio < fziglio at redhat.com > wrote:

> > >
> 
> > > This is required for the following GMainLoop integration,
> 
> > > which utilizes some of the new functions/definitions, namely:
> 
> > >
> 
> > > [definition][GLib version]
> 
> > > g_clear_pointer() 2.34
> 
> > > G_SOURCE_REMOVE 2.32
> 
> > > G_SOURCE_CONTINUE 2.32
> 
> > > g_unix_signal_add() 2.30
> 
> > >
> 
> > > GLib version accross distributions:
> 
> > > - Fedora 26 2.52
> 
> > > - Fedora 25 2.50
> 
> > > - Fedora 24 2.48
> 
> > > - CentOS 7 2.46
> 
> > > - Debian 9 2.50
> 
> > >
> 
> > > RHEL 6 is no longer supported,
> 
> > > so remove README.RHEL-5.
> 
> > >
> 
> > > Acked-by: Frediano Ziglio < fziglio at redhat.com >
> 

> > Still ack.
> 

> > Are you fine with the series or do you prefer the g_idle change?
> 

> Yeah, I'm totally fine with it.

> > I'm fine your yours/Victor patches, just need an ack to mine.
> 

> Great, so are we waiting for someone else from the spice team to ack your
> patch?

For me your is fine too. 

Frediano 

> > Frediano
> 

> Thanks,
> Jakub

> > > ---
> 
> > > Makefile.am | 1 -
> 
> > > README.RHEL-5 | 34 ----------------------------------
> 
> > > configure.ac | 2 +-
> 
> > > 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> > > delete mode 100644 README.RHEL-5
> 
> > >
> 
> > > diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> 
> > > index 45f7177..4689713 100644
> 
> > > --- a/Makefile.am
> 
> > > +++ b/Makefile.am
> 
> > > @@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ manpage_DATA = \
> 
> > >
> 
> > > EXTRA_DIST = \
> 
> > > NEWS \
> 
> > > - README.RHEL-5 \
> 
> > > data/70-spice-vdagentd.rules \
> 
> > > data/spice-vdagent.desktop \
> 
> > > data/spice-vdagentd \
> 
> > > diff --git a/README.RHEL-5 b/README.RHEL-5
> 
> > > deleted file mode 100644
> 
> > > index 9b9ccc7..0000000
> 
> > > --- a/README.RHEL-5
> 
> > > +++ /dev/null
> 
> > > @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
> 
> > > -spice-vdagent and RHEL-5 README
> 
> > > --------------------------------
> 
> > > -
> 
> > > -spice-vdagent can also be used inside RHEL-5 guests, if, and only if,
> > > they
> 
> > > -are hosted on a host which uses virtio-serial as the agent channel. Note
> 
> > > -that older hosts, such as qemu shipped with RHEL-5 for example, use
> 
> > > -a custom pci device (the spicevmc device) for the agent channel and
> 
> > > -there is no Linux support for this device so spice-vdagent does not work
> 
> > > -inside guests hosted on such hosts! Hosts based on RHEL-6 or Fedora 15
> 
> > > -and newer for example, are fine.
> 
> > > -
> 
> > > -spice-vdagent relies on ConsoleKit to determine the active session,
> > > since
> 
> > > -RHEL-5 has no ConsoleKit it cannot do this on RHEL-5, therefor only 1
> 
> > > -active X-session is supported with RHEL-5. If you try to start multiple
> 
> > > -sessions by running multiple X-servers the agent will disable itself.
> 
> > > -
> 
> > > -Since the RHEL-5 X-server does not support hotplugging of input devices,
> 
> > > -spice-vdagentd must be started before the X-server, so that it can
> > > create
> 
> > > -the uinput tablet device it uses for agent mouse mode.
> 
> > > -
> 
> > > -This also means that you must use a customized xorg.conf to teach the
> 
> > > -X-server about the uinput device. An example xorg.conf is included with
> 
> > > -spice-vdagent. After installing spice-vdagent, first start
> > > spice-vdagentd,
> 
> > > -and then copy this file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart your X-server.
> 
> > > -
> 
> > > -Note: the sample xorg.conf assumes that the vm has been configured to
> > > *not*
> 
> > > -use a usb tablet device, since there is no need for one with the agent
> > > and
> 
> > > -usb emulation takes a significant amount of CPU.
> 
> > > -
> 
> > > -Building from source for RHEL-5
> 
> > > --------------------------------
> 
> > > -
> 
> > > -If you're building spice-vdagent from source on RHEL-5, you must pass
> 
> > > ---disable-console-kit --enable-static-uinput to ./configure!
> 
> > > diff --git a/ configure.ac b/ configure.ac
> 
> > > index fbc20a9..d92b527 100644
> 
> > > --- a/ configure.ac
> 
> > > +++ b/ configure.ac
> 
> > > @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([static-uinput],
> 
> > > [enable_static_uinput="$enableval"],
> 
> > > [enable_static_uinput="no"])
> 
> > >
> 
> > > -PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GLIB2], [glib-2.0 >= 2.28])
> 
> > > +PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GLIB2], [glib-2.0 >= 2.34])
> 
> > > PKG_CHECK_MODULES(X, [xfixes xrandr >= 1.3 xinerama x11])
> 
> > > PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SPICE, [spice-protocol >= 0.12.13])
> 
> > > PKG_CHECK_MODULES(ALSA, [alsa >= 1.0.22])
> 
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