[Bf-committers] Re: Meeting Summary May 8th 2005

[GSR]

Hi,
rperini at email.it (2005-05-10 at 2354.54 +0000):
> It's true, but actually Blender's binaries are compiled against *old* glibc.
> Blender 2.36 is linked against glibc 2.2.5, when the latest glibc is 2.3.5
> Many people uses updated distros (read they don't use Debian), so why 
> not compile against latest libraries?

Some releases where shipped with both versions. Some others only one,
and I have not seen a huge "it does not work" that was not about
missing lib that exists, just not installed.

I just tested official 2.36 in a Debian which has 2.3.2 (right, not
2.2.5). It works too anyway. So maybe the reason is to keep
compatibility?

> Personally speaking, if I want use Blender, I have to recompile it 
> myself, because official binary releases are *always* linked against 
> *old* libraries.

Could you show ldd "official-blender-binary" and which distro are you
using? I am curious what kind of error are you getting. Thanks.

GSR