On 16/02/2019 08:03, Aram Akhavan via shifter-users wrote: > I have a workstation that uses openSUSE 11.4. I'd like to install xpra, > but no package exists for this old OS. > > Unfortunately, it also seems that, since the OS support ended so long > ago, xpra's dependencies are not even up to date. I'm not quite sure what you mean by that.
> So I cannot build xpra > myself, unless I build the dependencies as well. Try building xpra version 1.0 LTS, that's more likely to build on outdated distributions. > I can't build the dependencies in their default locations because I > don't have root access, so I'm left with a mess of shared object files > and linking issues. Look at how pkg-config and LD_LIBRARY_PATH work. > I've been bashing my head against this for a week > and not making much progress. Wow, that's a lot of time! > Every dependency I try to build has its > own dependencies, which I often cannot build either. I've gotten so far > as to have to re-build gcc and glibc from scratch. But my existing gcc > is so old I'm having problems! I don't understand why you want to rebuild those. > Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can make this less painful? Yes, OTOH: * use containers if you have enough privileges to do that * use flatpak, snapd or appimage * install a supported distribution in a chroot and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PYTHONPATH and PATH to run the code from there. > What I'm hoping to accomplish is a statically-linked binary that I can > build and run from a network share. You could probably write a script to wrap the chroot option above. > Does such a binary already exist somewhere that I can just download? Not yet. Cheers, Antoine > > Many thanks, > > Aram > > > _______________________________________________ > shifter-users mailing list > shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk > http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list shifter-users@lists.devloop.org.uk http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
