[Qt-interest] Qt 4.7.1 Linux libs

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 11.11.10 00:20:49, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 de November de 2010 19:40:23 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Huh..., we said "old distro", not "positively ancient" :-)
> 
> libc5 was replaced by glibc 2.0 back in 1998 or 1999. I was using Linux 2.0 at 
> the time. I doubt it even compiles these days on modern kernels, though it may 
> run.

Uhm, sorry, I confused libc and libstdc++. So we're actually still
shipping a libstdc++5 version of the app (with gcc 3.3), not libc5 :)

Andreas

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