On 02/07/13 12:02, Ziller Eike wrote: > It is basically impossible to provide a single binary build that works even > on all "reasonably modern" distros (however that might be defined). We have > seen that over and over again, and that's why it was decided a longer time > ago to use Ubuntu as a reference platform. (Even providing a binary package > that works through multiple Ubuntu versions has its trickiness as we've seen > in the past.)
Sorry, but I don't believe this is true, at least in a practical sense if you're willing to build with older compilers - I write software for Linux distros, and we build with g++ 4.1 for precisely this reason: so that it's pretty much guaranteed to work on a useful range of modern and older systems. It's annoying having to build with an older compiler for sure, but things are generally backwards compatible (so modern systems can run older exes built with older compilers), as long as everything (stuff like zlib and libpng) is statically linked, as opposed to dynamically to the system ones. A *lot* of places are very conservative with distro upgrades and I know a lot of places still on CentOS 5.2/4. Peter _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
