Tell gcc/glibc not to use symbols higher than X.Y

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 11/22/2011 4:37 AM, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote:
> 1) To use LSB. Seems to be right decision on the first glance, but it
> looks like distributions do not install LSB loader by default. At least
> Ubuntu 10.04 and CentOS 5.7 do not have any /lib/ld-lsb.so* installed by
> default. So binary will not work in these distributions out of the box.
> More over I get some misleading error message like "file not found",
> rather than something more meaningful like "LSB not installed, do
> apt-get install lsb" when I try to run it on Ubuntu without LSB
> installed.

Use LSB. Require your users to install base LSB packages. Better yet when
you build your RPM or DEB, depend upon the required LSB packages.

Cheers,
Carlos.