[libvirt] [PATCH 04/10] build: require yajl >= 2.0.3

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Thu May 9 08:30:25 UTC 2019


On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 17:29 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 06:21:21PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 03, Ján Tomko wrote:
> > 
> > > Since all our supported platforms include at least yajl 2.0.4,
> > > use pkg-config to detect the library and set the minimum to 2.0.3.
> > 
> > In case SLE_12 is on the list of supported platforms, this kicked it
> > off of the list. SLE_12 (and Leap 42.3) comes with version 2.0.1.
> > SLE_15 has version 2.1.0.
> 
> Yes, this is a mistake.
> 
>   https://libvirt.org/platforms.html
> 
>  "For distributions with long-lifetime releases, the project will aim
>   to support the most recent major version at all times. Support for
>   the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new 
>   major version is released. For the purposes of identifying supported
>   software versions, the project will look at RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu LTS,
>   and SLES distros. "
> 
> SLE 15 was released  July 2018, so we should be continuing to support
> SLE 12 until July 2020.
> 
> So we need to fix this to allow fallback to the non-pkg-config detection
> for yajl.

Well that's a bummer, but at least we don't have to re-introduce
support for YAJL 1 - just fix YAJL 2 detection.

We should really add support for SLES, or whatever its CentOS
equivalent is, to libvirt-jenkins-ci, though.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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