[Interest] Qt 5.5 and Red Hat 5

[Till Oliver Knoll]

> Am 19.03.2015 um 04:52 schrieb Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> 
>> On Wednesday 18 March 2015 16:00:54 Ian Monroe wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:02 PM, william.crocker at analog.com <
>>> 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.
> 
> The problem is RHEL5.

Yes, but the OP also explicitly mentioned RH 6 ("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.").

So I understand they're sitting on thousands of 8 years old RH 5 releases, don't even want to update system libraries (by shipping their own versions - or maybe even by preventing the distribution itself from fetching newer versions), and as such seem unable to compile even earlier (5.0, 5.1, 5.2, ...) Qt versions, apparently even on a more up to date (fully updated?) RH 6 release.

As I see it the current issue (using a kernel feature which is not present on an 8 years old RH 5) can be ignored. Qt 5 will never compile for them, as it seems, since even when that feature in question would be removed again, they would get past that point in compilation, but would still hit problems with outdated (system) libraries.

So I would rather focus on RH 6 and ignore RH 5.

Cheers,
  Oliver