Nuzhna, On Friday 11 September 2009, Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: > It seems that the generic binaries are compiled with gcc 3, for > some reason I absolutely can not fathom. Gcc 4 has been out for > more than four years now - an eternity in the world of software.
You might have noted that we provide packages for many Linux distributions covering the most popular Linux distributions. If you cannot use one of these provided packages then you indeed have to use on of the generic .run packages. These packages are the fallback and therefore they are compiled on an older Linux distribution (RHEL4) with gcc-3.4 which is a still quite nice compiler. Compiling the generic packages on an older distribution increases the probability that these packages run on a not directly supported Linux distribution. > I run built from scratch distributions on my machines, with gcc > 4.3.x and either glibc 2.8 or 2.9. Will any of the available > binaries work with this combination, and if not, can someone > build one that will? I assume that the builds are automated, > and that adding one more would require too much additional work. Why don't you just install one of the generic packages and try if it works for you? I strongly believe they do because the glibc is backward compatible. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com
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