[Starkit] linux distro choice

[Steve Landers]

On 24/04/2006, at 8:14 PM, Jean-Claude Wippler wrote:

> Steve Landers just told me that my latest tclkit 8.4.13 builds  
> (both dyn & static) are "too recent" for his purposes (these  
> binaries even have the nerve to call his kernel "too old"!).
>
> So now I have two questions:
>
> 1) Could someone please confirm that tclkit at least works fine on  
> Linux x86 when built with the latest genkit & tars?

I hasten to add - tclkit 8.4.13 works fine for me on my preferred  
Linux - SuSE 10.0.

But I have some older distros that I'm stuck with for various reasons  
- mainly based on older RedHat kernels (i.e. 2.4 series).

> If we can't come up with a good way out, then I'm afraid that  
> tclkit will end up no longer having a general binary on Linux.   
> It'll be back to "just build your own".

I suspect it won't be that bad - most kernel 2.6 / glibc 2.3 distros  
should be fine. Worst case will be "build your own if the provided  
one doesn't work".

But there must be a lowest common denominator out there - we just  
need help in finding it.

Steve