On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Are both Linuxes of broadly similar vintage? > > That depends on what you mean by "broadly similar". As far as I am > concerned, a five year difference is not very much, and is broadly > similar -- it's not like I'm using Linux from 1991. But the whole point is > that I need something with gcc 4.8 (maybe 4.7 will do, not sure) but > certainly not 4.4 which is the most recent I can get on my current systems.
It's a rubbery term, but basically take the year of release of the distro versions you're using, push 'em forward if they're bleeding-edge distros or back if they're uber-stable, and try to guess the age of the libraries they're running. Or check by looking at some nice over-arching version number like Linux kernel; if they use similar versions of Linux and libc, they probably have roughly similar versions of a lot of other libraries, too. The more similar the library versions, the less issues you'll have. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
