GObject creation cannot normally fail, except for types that implement
GInitable and take a GError in their _new() method. Some NM types
override constructor() and return NULL in some cases, but these
generally only happen in the case of programmer error (eg, failing to
set a mandatory property), and so crashing is reasonable (and most
likely inevitable anyway).
So, remove all NULL checks after calls to g_object_new() and its
myriad wrappers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693678
Use --enable-doc and --enable-tests instead of --with-docs and
--with-tests. This is consistent with other features and with
--enable-gtk-doc option. Support current variants as fallback.
Don't build tests unless --enable-tests is specified.
We had separate checks for glib-2.0, gobject-2.0, gmodule-2.0, and
gio-unix-2.0. It doesn't make sense to link a binary against all 4
because gio-unix-2.0 depends on glib-2.0 and gobject-2.0. Doing this
actually breaks things in unusual circumstances.
Generally, few bits of NM actually just use glib, and not gio. We
might as well coalesce those requirements together, even if it means
in some cases we "overlink". Additionally, I chose for now to fold
gmodule-2.0 in as well, even though many fewer programs need it. The
cost of overlinking is quite small.
The benefit of this is less repeated junk in Makefile.am, as well as
more centralized control over GLib. A followup patch will allow us to
set -DGLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED in just one place, rather than having
to replicate it 4 times.
The NM configure is still suboptimal - for example, libpolkit-1
depends on gio-2.0, so really we should determine the compiler flags
all in one pass. But it doesn't matter too much for now.
This functionality is (mostly) obsoleted by the newer
GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED and GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED defines. With
this, your build doesn't all of a sudden blow up if we deprecate
something in GLib - you have to explicitly opt-in to the newer
version.
G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED does still apply for macros and things that can't
take __attribute__((deprecated)), but it's not really worth the pain
and cargo culting around just for that.
The ctype macros (eg, isalnum(), tolower()) are locale-dependent. Use
glib's ASCII-only versions instead.
Also, replace isascii() with g_ascii_isprint(), since isascii()
accepts control characters, which isn't what the code wanted in any of
the places where it was using it.
nm_utils_hwaddr_ntoa() and nm_utils_hwaddr_aton() are like
ether_ntoa()/ether_aton(), but handle IPoIB too.
nm_utils_hwaddr_atoba() is like _aton() but returns a GByteArray,
since that's what's wanted in many places.
Also remove nm_ether_ntop() and replace uses of it with
nm_utils_hwaddr_ntoa().
