[Qt-interest] Qt 4.7.1 Linux libs

[Joshua Grauman]

>> I realize this cannot be 'magically solved'. But my understanding was that
>> it was 'purposefully solved' by Nokia. In other words, yes the Qt SDK does
>> have the dependencies of whatever machine Nokia used to build the SDK,
>> however, my understanding is that they purposefully chose to build the SDK
>> based on an older distro (I read something by Nokia somewhere this advice
>> on trying to make Qt run on as many machines as possible), so that the SDK
>> would run on as many distros as possible. Thus it was really nice to not
>> have to re-create that build environment, but simply copy the Qt Libs from
>> the SDK. But I guess from what I can see of Thiago's response, the answer
>> is simply 'wait' for the updated SDK.
>
> Building on an older distribution is by far no guarantee that stuff will
> run on newer versions. Quite the contrary, for example we're still
> shipping a libc5 version of our app, but that one is not usable on many
> recent distro's (on some there's still a compat package). Same applies
> to the dependencies of Qt, in particular the ones that are newer and
> still break their ABI from time to time.
>
> Andreas

Agreed.

I guess my point is that I'm assuming Nokia is doing the work to make sure 
their SDK works on as many distros as possible and I'd like to simply use 
their libs than have to work on that myself...

Josh