02.07.2013, 15:15, "Peter Pearson" <[email protected]>: > 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.
Actually, you don't have to build with g++ 4.1. RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 comes with g++ 4.4 in repos, and you can build portable Linux binaries with it keeping compatibility with RHEL 5. -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
