[CentOS-devel] cockpit-ws should require GLib 2.37.4 or later

Packagers of Cockpit might be interested in this pull request. We'll
start to describe our dependency on GLib more accurately. Since versions
of GLib before 2.37.4 crash with cockpit-ws, we'll refuse to build on
those versions.

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/1586

This is the bug in question:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701283
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1143943

However if your distro has patched GLib to fix this bug (I think CentOS
has done this), you can use the mechanism provided by pkg-config to
override the check in question. This is described in the failure output
of configure when this dependency are not met:

> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GLIB_TLS_CFLAGS
> and GLIB_TLS_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Cheers,

Stef

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