Most distros should work, but some tend to stick with archaic libs and
might cause problems. If you avoid the one-off distros, I can't see
problems with glibc. It's the other libs that are going to bite you. Not
everyone uses Ubuntu, and every now and then I run into some screwball
lib that Steam assumes is going to be there, but it isn't.
Linux, unlike Windows, will run on old crap hardware, so there really is
no reason to stick with old distros. I have a 15 year old laptop with an
1800MHz celeron that runs the most current version of Slackware. My
daughter took it to school, and immediately noticed that it was faster
than the schools Windows computers that were fairly new. Go figure...
On 02/20/2017 04:19 PM, Emil Larsson wrote:
How old distribution of Linux do you even need to run for this to a
concern?
Den 20 feb. 2017 23:46 skrev "John Schoenick" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Hey everyone,
Following up on the warning email we sent a long while back, we're
making good on our promise and changing our build toolchains for
the TF2+SDK2013 games' dedicated server. TF2 is being updated
first, with the other SDK2013 games to follow.
There are two things that may affect server administrators that
you should be aware of:
*The Linux dedicated server now targets the Steam Runtime*
The Steam Runtime is a common runtime target based on Ubuntu. For
srcds, this largely means linking against a more recent glibc than
may be available in some server distributions. Administrators
should check that the provided beta still runs in their
environment of choice. Those who are on older or incompatible
distributions have several options:
- Switch to a distribution more compatible with the Steam Runtime,
such as Ubuntu LTS
- Make use of a chroot/container/VM environment to run srcds. The
tools linked below include a script for creating a chroot that can
be used for bootstrapping Steam Runtime environments.
- Use the Steam Runtime tools linked below combined with some
dynamic linker magic to use the runtime libraries on an
incompatible distribution, e.g.:
steamrt=/path/to/runtime
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="bin:$steamrt/usr/lib32"
LD="$steamrt/usr/lib32/ld-linux.so.2"
"$LD" ./srcds_linux "$@"
More information about the Steam Runtime and utilities for
obtaining it can be found here:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime
<https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime>
*
*
*The compiler toolchain used for all editions of srcds has changed*
Along with the client builds, all server builds have been updated
to a newer compiler. Windows builds now use the MSVC2015 tools,
while Linux builds now use a newer edition of GCC with differing
command-line parameters that affect codegen.
This is expected to break mods that expect certain ABI behaviors
or look for certain signatures in order to hook functions (such as
SourceMod). We have separately spoken with the SourceMod team and
they are working on supporting the new setup. Maintainers of
other mods should test them against the beta release below.
Our previous warning also indicated that this would change the
_srv naming of the linux binaries. We have decided *not* to
adjust this, and the separate _srv build and naming remains unchanged.
*Beta*
We've made a beta branch available for TF2 with these new
changes. The remaining SDK2013 games will be updated in the near
future, and we will provide a beta for them at that time.
The beta is compatible with the current TF2 public release -
servers may safely convert to it and continue serving both beta
and non-beta clients.
The beta branch is titled "toolchainbeta" with no required
password. It can be accessed with SteamCMD via:
app_update 232250 -beta toolchainbeta
These changes may be promoted to an official release of TF2 as
soon as next week, so we encourage all server administrators to
test their setup against the beta before then.
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns
- John
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