[Bf-committers] Blender 2.43 RC1

[D.J. Capelis]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 18:27 -0800, D.J. Capelis wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 17:09 -0600, Kent Mein wrote:
> > In reply to Hans Lambermont (hans at lambermont.dyndns.org):
> > 
> > Grabed them all.
> > 
> > Anyone that wants to start testing can grab them at:
> > http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.43rc/
> > 
> > Not sure what Ton had planned for announcing them so we'll wait to
> > offically announce on the site...  Were still waiting on a couple of platforms
> > anyway.
> > 
> > Hans also not sure how to answer the version question.  
> > If things continue like they have, there will probably be quite a few
> > changes, probably not worth it to keep changing it until we have an
> > offical release.  If you want to though it wouldn't hurt anything.
> > 
> > Kent
> 
> You can go ahead and pull the Linux x86 build now: 

Ooops, forgot to provide you the most important part: 
http://ieng6.ucsd.edu/~dcapelis/blender-2.43-RC1-linux-glibc232-py24-i386.tar.bz2

> 
> Just as a note, these builds will fail on a default install of FC5 or
> above.  The fix is to install the compat-libstdc++-33 package, fedora
> apparently decided that breaking the ABI for C++ applications by default
> is no big deal.  However to maintain compatibility with older
> distributions we will be sticking with the older versions of the
> libraries for the time being.  If we could add a note about this
> somewhere that'd probably be a good idea...