[Qt5-feedback] Fwd: Re: Qt major versions

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 09 June 2011, Craig.Scott at csiro.au wrote:
> On 08/06/2011, at 4:27 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 08:58:22 AM Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> >> LSB has lost track of what's recent. Just take a mildly old / relatively
> > 
> > I don't know whether I misunderstood the idea behind LSB, but even RHEL
> > and SLES (forgot the exact versions, they were relatively old), which
> > claimed they would comply to the same LSB version, were not binary
> > compatible. The STL differed, some function from std::string was inlined
> > on the one system and called some internal STL function, which did not
> > exist on the other system. Should that have worked ?
> 
> I'm not familiar with the specifics of the particular case you mention, but
> there are at least a few possibilities:
> 
> (1) The application using std::string might not have been getting built
> with LSB compilers - if you build with the standard g++ compiler, then you
> are not talking about LSB anymore. Building with lsbc++ instead puts g++
> into "LSB mode" which should prevent the use of non-LSB symbols/libraries
> if things are all working correctly.

So, the only way to get LSB-compliant binaries is to use gcc and e.g. Intel 
compilers are out of the game ?

Alex