[Interest] Qt 5.5 and Red Hat 5

[Christoph Cullmann]

> On 21/03/15 20:19, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 March 2015 14:41:24 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> "Qt 5.5 will provide support for Windows 10 (when available) and RedHat
> >> Enterprise Linux 6.6."
> >>
> >>   From http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/03/17/qt-5-5-alpha-available/
> >
> > RHEL 6.6 comes with glibc 2.12, which isn't affected by these issues. See
> > http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat
> >
> > Again, the problem is RHEL 5, which has glibc 2.5.
> 
> How is the C++11 situation here though? I assume RHEL 6 support in Qt
> comes without C++11 due to the ABI incompatibilities between the toolset
> and vanilla RHEL?
If you use a modern devtoolset, like 1.x/2.x, you can have C++11 on both RHEL 5 & 6 without
any problems.

The CI wiki states they use gcc 4.9.1 on RHEL 6 (at least from qt 5.5.0 on), guess that means devtoolset >= 2.x

See https://wiki.qt.io/Qt-5.5.0-tools-and-versions

Greetings
Christoph

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