[Interest] Qt 5.5 and Red Hat 5

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:02 PM, william.crocker at analog.com <
william.crocker at analog.com> wrote:

>
> >
> > Bill said:
> >> My sight has over 500 Linux machines. Only a handful
> >> are running RedHat 6, but we will finally be migrating
> >> over the next 6 months to a year.
> >
> > And when will you be deploying Qt 5.5 to that site?
> >
>
> Probably never because I can't get it to build.
>
> Qt5 requires certain versions of certain libraries, but
> those version are not there on RH5. That is to be expected.
> And I am not going to upgrade to the required versions, if it
> is even possible, because that would have to happen on
> 500 machines (and then 1000's more around the world)
> and then we would have to re-qualify all of our software.
>
> I tried once to get it to build on RH6, but even there I got
> the impression that I did not have the required versions of
> the required libraries. I could push for library version
> upgrades, but then we would have to re-qualify all of the
> software again and at this point the goal us to just get RH6
> out there.
>
> If I do ever go for 5 I will probably have to bundle a lot
> of libraries with my distribution.
>

Are you sure the off-the-shelf binaries don't work on RH6? The qt.io
binaries for Qt 5.4 is built on Ubuntu 11.10, which is only about a year
newer than RH6.

Ian
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