In subsequent checks I installed the deb (not arc!) package using dpkg -i *.deb


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013, at 12:05, Herbert Duerr wrote:
> On 29.09.2013 21:12, Edwin Sharp wrote:
> > [...]
> > Not sure what is meant by Crash bug, but here is relevant information:
> > Current distribution I use: http://www.aptosid.com/
> 
> A great distribution, I use that too!
> 
> > AOO was installed from arc file of the Buildbots.
> 
> Ah, that's the reason. Linux has a different development philosophy than 
> most other platforms. On other platforms you tell the compiler to target 
> a specific baseline (e.g. OSX 10.4 or Windows XP). On Linux the 
> philosophy used to be "just recompile if any of the libraries changed 
> its APIs" or "update from your system's specific package repository 
> where one of the maintainers did that for you". Things have gotten much 
> better since but selecting a target API is still not easily possible.
> 
> So to solve this for our releases we use the "greatest common 
> denominator" approach on Linux: Linux nowadays tries not to break older 
> binaries, so we're using a very old system for building the packages. A 
> system old enough that most current systems can work with it.
> 
> These ancient systems are how we build our releases and release snapshots.
> 
> Now the Linux64 buildbot uses Ubuntu 10.4 and the Linux32 buildbot runs 
> on Ubuntu 12.4. These systems are quite new and their new compilers are 
> much better than what is provided by the "greatest common denominator " 
> systems, which enables them to find and report important bugs. The 
> drawback is that unless your system is a descendant of these newer Linux 
> systems the builds they create are unusable for you.
> 
> I suggest to check the official release candidate snapshots if we're in 
> the release phase. They have the maximum binary compatibility.
> 
> If you want to check the latest experimental trunk releases created by 
> buildbots running new distributions I suggest to install that same 
> distribution or one of its descendants.
> 
> Herbert
> 
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