On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:02 PM, william.croc...@analog.com < william.croc...@analog.com> wrote:
> > > > > Bill said: > >> My sight has over 500 Linux machines. Only a handful > >> are running RedHat 6, but we will finally be migrating > >> over the next 6 months to a year. > > > > And when will you be deploying Qt 5.5 to that site? > > > > Probably never because I can't get it to build. > > Qt5 requires certain versions of certain libraries, but > those version are not there on RH5. That is to be expected. > And I am not going to upgrade to the required versions, if it > is even possible, because that would have to happen on > 500 machines (and then 1000's more around the world) > and then we would have to re-qualify all of our software. > > I tried once to get it to build on RH6, but even there I got > the impression that I did not have the required versions of > the required libraries. I could push for library version > upgrades, but then we would have to re-qualify all of the > software again and at this point the goal us to just get RH6 > out there. > > If I do ever go for 5 I will probably have to bundle a lot > of libraries with my distribution. > Are you sure the off-the-shelf binaries don't work on RH6? The qt.io binaries for Qt 5.4 is built on Ubuntu 11.10, which is only about a year newer than RH6. Ian
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