[Interest] Qt 5.5 and Red Hat 5

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Mar 19 15:27:28 CET 2015


On Thursday 19 March 2015 06:52:33 Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
> > 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.").

Christoph didn't say anything about RHEL6. The only mention of RHEL comes from 
the subject, which said (and still says) RHEL5.

The person who mentioned RHEL6 was Bill Crocker, who isn't the OP. And he said 
he has the same problem because he has the same version (RHEL5).

> 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 problems with outdated (system) libraries.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.

Right.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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