[opensource-dev] Building the viewer after the latest commits

[Adam Moss]

Agreed on the conservative versioning for reasons of minimal requirements
and maximal compatibility - this is (was?) always a conscious goal.
Ta,
--Adam


On 19 August 2014 12:27, Henri Beauchamp <sldev at free.fr> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:37:36 +0200, Lance Corrimal wrote:
>
> > > Am Montag, 18. August 2014, 14:01:45 schrieb Nicky Perian:
> >
> > >> I ran into an issue with boost built with gcc 4-6 and viewer
> compiling goo
> > >> 4-7. rebuilt boost on 4.7 and no more problems.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > that worked. Now that needs to go into the official sources...
>
> Hopefully not !...
>
> The current Linux builds of the viewer and pre-built libraries are
> compiled with gcc 4.6, which also imposes a minimal requirement on
> the target systems' libstdc++ version (6.0.16).
>
> If LL were to provide pre-built libraries compiled with gcc v4.7,
> then the "old" (like 2 years old *only*) Linux distributions would
> become incapable of running the resulting viewer.
>
> You should instead keep a partition (or a VirtualBox virtual machine)
> with a build-system matching LL's one (i.e. using gcc 4.6.4 and its
> associated libstdc++).
>
> Henri.
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