On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 20:25 +0100, Richard Shann wrote: > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 10:30 -0400, Bric wrote: > > On 06/10/2014 07:30 AM, Richard Shann wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 07:16 -0400, Bric wrote: > > >> On 06/09/2014 11:51 PM, Bric wrote: > > >>> On 06/09/2014 11:16 PM, Bric wrote: > > >>>> On 06/09/2014 02:45 AM, Bric wrote: > > >>>>> Hi, guys! > > >>>>> > > >>>>> Here I go again, with an ancient Ubuntu 10.10 (I've upgraded my main > > >>>>> system to Ubuntu 14.04, but would like to build denemo on a > > >>>>> different, old system because it also has some apps built with > > >>>>> ancient code which is out of maintenance and not forward-compatible). > > >>>>> > > >>>>> So, I managed to ./configure the latest git on the old Ubuntu 10.10, > > >>>>> but "make" errors out, apparently because my libglib is too old. Or > > >>>>> am I wrong? Below is the error message. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> My libglib2.0-0 is version 2.26.1-0ubuntu1. What are my options? > > >>>>> Thanks in advance. > > >>>>> > > >>>> Anyone? Am I correct in my assessment that this is a libglib version > > >>>> problem? > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> What's the highest denemo version that works with libglib-2.26 ? > > >>>> > > >>> I think I just determined that the error starts with version > > >>> 1.1.2 Version 1.1.0 seems to compile and run OK. > > >>> > > >> And as far as the downloadable binaries, version 1.1.2 and 1.1.4 > > >> segfault when launched. > > > Is it a 32-bit or 64-bit system? > > > > 32-bit > Are you sure you are launching it correctly? - you launch it with some > shell script called launch denemo or some such... > > > > > >> But I do wonder, in my API developer ignorance: could the binaries be > > >> made compatible here if, for instance, some functions where statically > > >> linked/compiled, as opposed to dynamically? > > > essentially it is as if they were linked statically. That is to say, > > > they include their own versions of glib and so on, rather than trying to > > > use unknown system ones. > > > > I don't understand - are you saying these binaries are already > > statically compiled? Or are you saying yes to the idea that they can > > be made more so? That one could compile executables of the latest > > versions that would run on old systems, because the newer functions > > would be internally contained? > > I think it is a dynamically linked library, whoops! a dynamically linked executable I meant to say > complete with the libraries > to link to at run time and a shell script to launch it with the > environment set to pick up the correct set of libraries, not the system > ones. > > Richard > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Denemo-devel mailing list > Denemo-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
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