Re: [Denemo-devel] building on an old system again - error

[Richard Shann]

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
> 
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