Dear Kay, do you use devtoolset (Red Hat Developer Toolset)? It's a set of relatively new tools and compilers, up to GCC 12, for RHEL7. It might be the best solution unless you need GCC 13+.
Marcin On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM Kay Diederichs <kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de> wrote: > > Dear all, > > when compiling XDS or any other software distributed as binaries, the > question comes up whether it will be compatible with the users' operating > system. > For Linux, the main stumbling point is the GLIBC version: a binary compiled > on a relatively new distribution (like Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 or Ubuntu > 22.04) will not work on older distributions (like Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 > or 7, or Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04) because it needs "symbols" from the newer > GLIBC library. > Whereas users with single or a few machines can typically upgrade with > reasonable effort to newer distributions (e.g. from Ubuntu 20 to 22 or 24), > some sites with many machines (e.g. synchrotrons) may be stuck with old Linux > distributions, assuming/hoping that these do not pose security risks due to > strict firewalls or other measures. > Therefore, developers tend to use machines with old distributions when > preparing their binaries for public consumption. The downside of this is that > new compilers and their features are often not available for these old > distributions. > > Since for XDS development we want to use new compiler versions, my question > is: is there any site still using Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 (or the > equivalent CentOS7) or Debian 9 or Ubuntu 18? Those sites that have not > upgraded their machines are at risk not being able to use XDS in the future. > Please get in touch with me. > > Any site with Redhat-8-compatible distribution or Ubuntu 20 or Debian 10 (or > specifically, GLIBC 2.28 and newer) should be good for now. > > Thank you, > Kay > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing > list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
