Compiling for old glibc

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#1

Hi,

I noticed that a JNI library compiled on openSUSE 11 cannot be used on openSUSE 10.3, it complains about glibc being to old (<= 2_7). Now this library is as tiny as can be and definitely does not use fancy new code from glibc 2.7.

Is there a switch or a trick I can use to be able to compile the library such that other and older Linuces are able to use it as well?

Thanks, H.

#2

Provide the source, let everyone compile it against their own glibc they have.

#3

Well, yes, of course. The code is GPL and can be gotten from svn. However, I don’t expect my users to be able to compile anything, certainly not JNI code. So I would like to offer an installer which just works.

I suppose the solution would be to make an rpm on a 10.3 machine.