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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
