Thank you both for this detailed information. I would suggest to put it at least to the Wiki (on GitHub) or next to builds on the downloads page as a footprint. Just as I said, compiling on low resource machines isn't that much fun. I think, that's why these binary builds are generally a great idea!
On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:48:57 AM UTC+2, Timothy J Fontaine wrote: > > TJ Fontaine is the ultimate authority on this subject but I believe >> the last few releases were compiled on a CentOS 6 box. >> >> We're in the process of changing that to CentOS 5.x to make the >> binaries compatible with old versions of glibc*. IIRC, they're >> currently linked against glibc 2.12. >> >> * It was either that or adding symbol aliases by hand in inline >> assembly. Downgrading CentOS seemed like the lesser hassle. :-) >> > > That's mostly accurate, the past stable and unstable release have been > built against Centos 5.7 (GLIBC 2.5) and gcc 4.4, while most previous > releases were built against Ubuntu 10.04. > > To fill out the conversation recent Windows builds were on Server 2K8R2 > with VC Express 2010, and OSX on 10.8.4 with Xcode 4.5 > > SmartOS builds are against a 1.8.x platform > > If you have any further questions don't hesitate to ask. > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
