fp install fails, "no version information available" error and install is aborted.

[brian at aljex.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: "Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 10:13am
To: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>, filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: fp install fails, "no version information available" error and install is aborted.

On 3/24/2016 12:40 AM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:31:22PM -0400, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> It also looks like the libc is too old, that it's pre-2.7.  If you
>> do this, you'll see what version(s) it supports:
>>
>>      strings /lib64/libc.so.6 | grep GLIBC_
>>
>> Note that 2.7 is from October 2007.  How old is your Linux?
>>
>> On my 64-bit Linux, I get:
>
> I see nothing on the fP Tech website which dictates library versions,
> vendors/distributions, distribution numbers, etc., for anything other than
> libtermcap.
[...]

fPTech doesn't "dictate" library versions -- gcc does.

Perhaps you've never built a binary on Linux using gcc?  I just compiled 
"hello world", and even it requires a specific glibc version or later.

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Perhaps "specify" or "document" would have been a better word, although dictate actually is still valid.

And yes, fptech does "dictate", both in the "decree" sense of the word as well as the "document" sense, not gcc.

If you don't override any gcc defaults, that is still your action not gcc's, because many and various ways of controlling gcc's behavior do exist.

However you configure the build, even if it's "we accept all defaults" the resulting binary should probably be documented.

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bkw