glib: bump min required glib library version to 2.40

Per supported platforms doc[1], the various min glib on relevant distros is:

  RHEL-7: 2.50.3
  Debian (Stretch): 2.50.3
  Debian (Jessie): 2.42.1
  OpenBSD (Ports): 2.54.3
  FreeBSD (Ports): 2.50.3
  OpenSUSE Leap 15: 2.54.3
  SLE12-SP2: 2.48.2
  Ubuntu (Xenial): 2.48.0
  macOS (Homebrew): 2.56.0

This suggests that a minimum glib of 2.42 is a reasonable target.

The GLibC compile farm, however, uses Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) which only
has glib 2.40.0, and this is needed for testing during merge. Thus an
exception is made to the documented platform support policy to allow for
all three current LTS releases to be supported.

Docker jobs that not longer satisfy this new min version are removed.

[1] https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/util/osdep.c b/util/osdep.c
index ea51d500b6..1c8d1e2ee0 100644
--- a/util/osdep.c
+++ b/util/osdep.c
@@ -504,20 +504,6 @@ int socket_init(void)
     return 0;
 }
 
-#if !GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2, 31, 0)
-/* Ensure that glib is running in multi-threaded mode
- * Old versions of glib require explicit initialization.  Failure to do
- * this results in the single-threaded code paths being taken inside
- * glib.  For example, the g_slice allocator will not be thread-safe
- * and cause crashes.
- */
-static void __attribute__((constructor)) thread_init(void)
-{
-    if (!g_thread_supported()) {
-       g_thread_init(NULL);
-    }
-}
-#endif
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_IOVEC
 /* helper function for iov_send_recv() */