On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I have a C++ program which requires g++ 3.4 to build due to parser bugs > in older versions of g++. I'm currently building on a development > machine running mostly woody with some packages from sarge, including > g++-3.4 of course. This requires version 2.3.2 of libc6 itself, and any > binaries I build with it appear to require version 2.3. Now, while I > prefer to do development on Debian, I need to build binaries that will > run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, which has version 2.2.4 of libc6. > > I'm wondering whether it's possible to build binaries with g++ 3.4 that > will require only libc6 2.2, and if so, how. If I remove g++-3.4, > downgrade to woody and then build and install g++ from source, is that > likely to work?
You're probably better off doing builds in a chroot environment - that will allow you to play with the environment in a safe with without destabilising your installation. Have a look at the pbuilder package - altough it is targetted towards building debian packages (which you probably want to do anyway), it is handy to keep multiple chroot environments, e.g. one for woody, one for sarge and one for whatever.. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks you for nothing. -- Joey Adams
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