[Starkit] linux distro choice

[engelbert.gruber at ssg.co.at]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, 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?

on suse72: 2.4.4-64GB-SMP linux x86

* 8.4.11 dyn works
* 8.4.12 dyn ./tclkit-linux-x86: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6:
* 8.4.12 static works (X11 display redirection is different, but ...)
* 8.4.13 static tells kernel too old

building

* tclsh genkit A
* tclsh genkit B

   fails:

> cat out/server/vfs

RUN: sh ../../../src/vfs/configure --prefix=/usr/src/tclkit/noarch 
--exec-prefix=/usr/src/tclkit/install/server 
--with-tcl=/usr/src/tclkit/build/server/tcl --disable-shared

checking for correct TEA configuration... ok (TEA 3.5)
checking for Tcl configuration... configure: error: 
/usr/src/tclkit/build/server/tcl directory doesn't contain tclConfig.sh

> ls  /usr/src/tclkit/build/server
itcldyn  kitsh  mk  tkdyn  vfs  zlib

tcl is missing ? dont know why yet

is this of any help anyway ?

> 2) Could someone please offer some advice as to which Linux x86 distribution 
> I should set up here to build a better tclkit binary on, i.e. one which has a 
> reasonable chance of working on a common range of Linux distributions out 
> there?  It's primarily a -lc and -lstdc++ version choice issue I think.

sorry not me


> 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".  Which would kill the whole point of starkits & starpacks on 
> Linux, IMO.