[tlbuild] x86_64-linux builder

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Wed May 6 00:49:16 CEST 2009


On Di, 05 Mai 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
>     The problems had been caused by shared libraries.
> 
> Indeed.  And I thought that libc was one of those libraries.

Definitely.

>     Kernel or libc version numbers are absolutely irrelevant.
> 
> I asked for anything relevant.  If you know what's relevant, why didn't
> you send it?

Kernel version is irrelevant, libc version not. Here we should get the
oldest possible in ELF format (no a.out please, anyway not supported
anymore since years).

> Anyway, now that you've sent this contrarian statement, I seem to recall
> that X11 shared library versions were another issue.  Is that right?

That indeed is an important point. It was always about the libXaw.so.7
vs .so.6 AFAIR.

Best wishes

Norbert

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