On Friday 11 September 2009, Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: > --- On Fri, 9/11/09, Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Again, that is pretty ancient (RHEL *5* has been out for two > and a half years now).
That does not matter. RHEL/CentOS 4 is still supported. > > Compiling the generic packages on an older distribution > > increases the probability that these packages run on a > > not directly supported Linux distribution. > > I am going to disagree with that. I don't know of any > current distribution that still uses gcc 3. So, what's the problem? There are still people out there using older Linux distributions. For instance, Ubuntu LTS Server is supported for 5 years ... > > 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. > > I have tried that, and it absolutely will not run (with > complaints about missing libstdc++, because gcc 3 is not > installed (and I don't have the authority to override > policy to get it installed). A missing libstdc++? If you are not able to install libstdc++6 then you neither will be able to install VirtualBox. I don't know any recent distribution which does not ship this library. > I would happily try any of the builds created for specific > distributions, but I don't find the idea of going through > all of them in a trial and error mode very appealing. It > would help if the toolchains used to build each of binaries > were documented (like Opera does at: > http://get.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1000/final/en/i386/ - offering > combinations of gcc 3 or 4, qt 3 or 4, and static > or shared qt libraries). You still didn't mention which distribution you actually need a package for. > Again, I don't see why you can't make one more build of > each release for something a little more modern. Surely, > you won't keep building for gcc 3 forever. We provide additional packages if this is necessary. But we don't just add additional packages on a single user demand because this requires maintenance effort. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com
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