On 26 January 2016 at 21:44, Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:36:26 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> If I understand the problem correctly, the CentOS 5 gcc toolchain is
>> old enough that it simply doesn't emit the info libabigail needs in
>> order to work.
>
> If you build on CentOS 5, you certainly want to use the RH developer
> toolset 2 which gives you a modern-ish toolchain (gcc 4.8.2, IIRC).

Yeah, that's the part I haven't clarified yet - whether it was just
the base CentOS toolchain that was too old, or devtoolset-2.

If abicompat et al all work with devtoolset-2, then it definitely
makes sense to stick with the CentOS 5 baseline for now.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   [email protected]   |   Brisbane, Australia
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