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

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