[Bf-committers] Retiring Linux GLibc 2.11 builder

[Sergey Sharybin]

Then i think it's fair to state the proposal as following:

- We retire old squeeze based glibc-2.11 environment, as it's becoming a
PITA to maintain.
- We consider glibc-2.19 builds official recommended ones for regular users
- We look into bringing CentOS 6 based release environment if there are
indeed real studios who needs that and who rely on official builds from
blender.org.


On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Francesc Juhe <fjuhec at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, don’t really have any numbers. Not using RHEL nor CentOS here.
> Just wanted to point out that one major distro was still on a glibc older
> than 2.19
> I agree fully with the initial message, 2.11 is too old, squeeze is
> becoming more of a burden to maintain.
> 2.19 just seems too much of a jump but have no issues with it either.
> Systems here are up to date and I compile blender myself.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On 02 Oct 2016, at 17:15, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The whole topic here is only about how we compile binaries for
> blender.org.
> > Everyone will still be able to compile Blender on whatever system they
> use.
> > It is just becoming real PITA to support such oldie base systems.
> >
> > To my knowledge Blender's binaries aren't compatible with majority of
> RHEL
> > used on render farms and studios and their TDs are already compiling
> > Blender themselves. So (again, to my knowledge) there is no "regression"
> > here.
> >
> > Personally, i find all this vfxplatforms discussion more a speculation.
> Do
> > we have some real numbers? Like, are there studios on RHEL who really use
> > Blender? Are they managing to run official Blender binaries?
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Francesc Juhe <fjuhec at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It’s not really inconsistent, it’s just having those 'bleeding edge'
> libs
> >> on top of RHEL 6.7 and derivatives as a base, which is old.
> >> If vfxplatform was based on latest RHEL, the requirements would be glibc
> >> 2.17 but even that would be below 2.19
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02 Oct 2016, at 16:23, Bastien Montagne <montagne29 at wanadoo.fr>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Am not reproaching them to be conservative, but to be inconsistent. On
> >>> one side you have bleeding edge things (ptex, openvdb, alembic, and the
> >>> hilarious 'lastest' FBX), on the others, years old basis like gcc4.8 or
> >>> glibc2.13. Not to mention to ask for a compiler that only has
> >>> *experimental* support of required c++ version…
> >>>
> >>> Note that this would not prevent building blender over glibc2.13 imho,
> >>> people just might have to disable some features. Here we are talking
> >>> about official builds from Blender themselves only.
> >>>
> >>> Le 02/10/2016 à 16:08, Brian Savery a écrit :
> >>>>> I kind of have serious doubts about a 'large' studio who would not be
> >>>>> able to build its own Blender?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I would agree, but if blender won't build for centos 6/ Rhel you can
> >>>> pretty much guarantee they won't use it, which is unfortunate.
> >>>>
> >>>> And yes there are definitely some outdated things on that list but it
> >>>> definitely is taken seriously in the industry.  And as others have
> said
> >> you
> >>>> do see many "conservative" oses. Up until a few releases ago we had to
> >>>> provide a rhel4 build of prman if I remember correctly.
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyway just something to be aware of not trying to throw a monkey
> >> wrench in
> >>>> anything.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
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With best regards, Sergey Sharybin