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Description of problem:
BuildRequires lists glib2-devel, however the package cannot be rebuilt on glib2-2.40.0

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):open-vm-tools-9.4.0-6.el7


How reproducible:100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1.attempt to rebuild with latest glib2
2.
3.

Actual results:
/builddir/build/BUILD/open-vm-tools-9.4.0-1280544/lib/include/vmware/tools/log.h:137:0: error: "g_info" redefined [-Werror]
 #define g_info(fmt, ...) g_log(G_LOG_DOMAIN, G_LOG_LEVEL_INFO, fmt, ## __VA_ARGS__)
 ^
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:62:0,
                 from /builddir/build/BUILD/open-vm-tools-9.4.0-1280544/lib/include/vmware/tools/log.h:116,
                 from hgfsclient.c:38:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmessages.h:165:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
 #define g_info(...)     g_log (G_LOG_DOMAIN,         \
 ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[1]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/open-vm-tools-9.4.0-1280544/hgfsclient'
make[1]: *** [vmware_hgfsclient-hgfsclient.o] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Expected results:
BuildRequires: glib2 < 2.40.0

Additional info:

I've just looked at our build logs and open-vm-tools-9.4.0-6.el7
was built with glib2-2.36.3-5.el7.

Also note we will rebase open-vm-tools again in RHEL 7.2 (bug 1172833).

You could also use the patch from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063847, if you don't want to wait for rebase.

FYI, open-vm-tools version 9.10.0 with the fix for this bug has been updated in Fedora 22 under bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217864.

This new version of open-vm-tools brings some new configurations, details in bug 1172833.

After the bug 1172833 had been fixed, so verified this bug on the new version of open-vm-tools.
the new version of open-vm-tools-9.10.2-3.el7.x86_64 was built with glib2-2.42.2-4.el7.x86_64.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2246.html