Building for older systems

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Sun Nov 29 15:02:00 GMT 2015


On 11/29/2015 09:20 AM, Michael Eager wrote:
> Any solutions to building for an older glibc?

There is only one supported way to do what you want.

You need to build against an old sysroot e.g. --sysroot option
in gcc. With the old system root installed in some path to allow
you to compile against it.

It is not supported for you to build against a new glibc
and run against an older runtime. That would be forwards
compatibility, which we don't guarantee.

Cheers,
Carlos.
 



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