So if there is any possibility to drag build machine OS back to an older version, e.g. RHEL 5 or SLED 10? So that we could make AOO runs on RHEL 5 or SLED 10
2012/6/18 Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> > On 18.06.2012 10:37, Ji Yan wrote: > >> According to build guide[1], gcc 4.2.3 is the current reference compiler >> which means Linux build should be compiled against RedHat Enterprise >> Linux(RHEL) 6 or SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop(SLED) 11. So I'm wondering >> if we should drop OS support for RHEL5 and SLED 10? >> >> The fact is that AOO 3.4 release build is unable to be launched in neither >> RHEL5 nor SLED 10. Should we update system requirement and installation >> guide? >> > > In my opinion we should try to run on on RHEL5 or SLED10 unless there are > new technical requirements which make running it not feasible anymore. > AFAIK if we build the binaries on a suitable older platform (e.g. RHEL5 or > Centos5 instead of e.g. Ubuntu 12.04) then the binaries should work almost > anywhere as nowadays backward compatibility of Linux binaries is a widely > shared goal. > > Herbert > -- Thanks & Best Regards, Yan Ji
