[Starkit] Mandrake 7.2 tclkits

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

Guaca Mole wrote:

> Can you be a bit more specific about what the problems
> that you found in newer linux distributions with
> mandrake 7.2-based tclkit builds?
>
> It has worked for me fine in a lot of Linux
> distributions, compiling stdc++ statically

Well, the main problem right now is not the choice of MD72, but the  
fact that my vmware-based image is not usable anymore to build on.  I  
updated vmware over the years, and as of v5 (or 5.5, I forgot), it  
insisted on "upgrading" the (virtual) hardware of the setup I had  
running MD72.  After that, the MD72 system no longer recognizes the  
ethernet card, which makes it quite inconvenient for me to build on.   
I normally nfs-mount my kit build area on whatever system I want and  
build using a single setup.

Someone else also confirmed that MD72 works well, so I may just try  
to get that (truly ancient) MD72 setup going again.  What worries me  
a bit is that it is old also in terms of gcc/glibc/libstdc++ - so all  
the more recent security fixes will not be in there.

Meanwhile, how do the SuSE 8.2 builds work out for you?  I haven't  
built a dynamic one with libstdc++ linked in statically, but I might  
have a go at that if it helps.

Rhetorical question: could there be some Linux distro out there which  
is specifically designed to produce binaries which can be used on a  
maximum number of platforms?  If not, why not?  Does no one else on  
this planet deploy non-trivial binaries for Linux?

-jcw