[Interest] Qt 5.5 and Red Hat 5

[william.crocker at analog.com]

>>
>> 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in question would be removed again, they would get past that point in compilation, but would still hit problems with outdated (system) libraries.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.
>

I am perfectly happy ignoring RH5 as well.
I am looking forward to RH6 and for reasons other than the 5%
increase in the probability that I can build Qt5. :-)

BTW I am perfectly happy with Qt 4.8.6 (The devil I know).
Yes. the data visualization components of Qt5 would be nice,
but I could not care less about QML.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Bill

> Cheers,
>    Oliver
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