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    build: link to glib library · cfbe9f12
    Daniel P. Berrangé 提交于
    Add the main glib.h to internal.h so that all common code can use it.
    
    Historically glib allowed applications to register an alternative
    memory allocator, so mixing g_malloc/g_free with malloc/free was not
    safe.
    
    This was feature was dropped in 2.46.0 with:
    
          commit 3be6ed60aa58095691bd697344765e715a327fc1
          Author: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
          Date:   Sat Jun 27 18:38:42 2015 +0200
    
            Deprecate and drop support for memory vtables
    
    Applications are still encourged to match g_malloc/g_free, but it is no
    longer a mandatory requirement for correctness, just stylistic. This is
    explicitly clarified in
    
        commit 1f24b36607bf708f037396014b2cdbc08d67b275
        Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
        Date:   Thu Sep 5 14:37:54 2019 +0100
    
            gmem: clarify that g_malloc always uses the system allocator
    
    Applications can still use custom allocators in general, but they must
    do this by linking to a library that replaces the core malloc/free
    implemenentation entirely, instead of via a glib specific call.
    
    This means that libvirt does not need to be concerned about use of
    g_malloc/g_free causing an ABI change in the public libary, and can
    avoid memory copying when talking to external libraries.
    
    This patch probes for glib, which provides the foundation layer with
    a collection of data structures, helper APIs, and platform portability
    logic.
    
    Later patches will introduce linkage to gobject which provides the
    object type system, built on glib, and gio which providing objects
    for various interesting tasks, most notably including DBus client
    and server support and portable sockets APIs, but much more too.
    Signed-off-by: NDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
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