On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > I tried building Chromium in the past for EL6 and I gave up as it was > too difficult for me. Of course someone else might succeed in doing so, > but even in that case, for how long can he/she keep up with backporting > updates and so on? >
It would not be 'backporting' if you'd set up a build environment that uses a newer GCC and GTK2 library, and statically link against the newer GTK2. That's a bit of a pain for release engineering, but it's not rocket science. RHEL6/C6 (and Ubuntu 10.04) desktops are probably a tiny fraction of Google's user base, so they just may not want to expend the effort. Alternatively, one could do something tricky like make a special build of newer GTK2 libraries built with the newer GCC, and make Chrome load them in stead of the regular ones. -- Gé _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
