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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-03-05 17:16:46 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-03-05 17:16:46 -0400 |
| commit | 590f00b0fd5451df51d665d112784c4e61a7d4da (patch) | |
| tree | f790c130e367fce8b4f47acc82d23c6eb58ed3a8 /doc | |
| parent | 3123ba8246fa771791aa52658b21c99fe3324e97 (diff) | |
i386ancient build switched to stack, has more flags enabled
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/Set_some_reasonable_requirements_lower-bound_for_linux_standalone_builds:_no_longer_usable_on_CentOS_6.5.mdwn | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/install/Linux_standalone.mdwn | 3 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/Set_some_reasonable_requirements_lower-bound_for_linux_standalone_builds:_no_longer_usable_on_CentOS_6.5.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Set_some_reasonable_requirements_lower-bound_for_linux_standalone_builds:_no_longer_usable_on_CentOS_6.5.mdwn index 5f7166ed3..f2ff38702 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Set_some_reasonable_requirements_lower-bound_for_linux_standalone_builds:_no_longer_usable_on_CentOS_6.5.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Set_some_reasonable_requirements_lower-bound_for_linux_standalone_builds:_no_longer_usable_on_CentOS_6.5.mdwn @@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ standalone builds leap forward a bit too fast in terms of their demand on modern kernel. Up until a month ago, standalone build worked at least on CentOS 6.5 with 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 (although [already didn't on ancient but still in use RHEL5 with 2.6.18](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/176#issuecomment-114612365)). Current build from 20150916 doesn't work on CentOS 6.5 any longer. No matter how much I like people to use more recent releases of their distributions, it is infeasible to demand people to do that. It would be great if standalone builds were carried out on some elder kernel/libc environment to make git-annex standalone builds usable there. +> [[done]]; the ancient build provides this. It's now build with stack, so +> it gets most features enabled. (Except xmpp, notably.) This does mean +> it will only get library security fixes once git-annex's stack.yaml +> is updated to require a new version of the affected library. --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/install/Linux_standalone.mdwn b/doc/install/Linux_standalone.mdwn index 4d0a1c096..223c8189b 100644 --- a/doc/install/Linux_standalone.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/Linux_standalone.mdwn @@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ linux systems. * [[forum_thread|forum/new_linux_arm_tarball_build]] The build for ancient kernels is for use with Linux kernel versions -such as 2.6.32. It is missing some features, like SHA3 support and -the webapp. It will work on both 32 and 64 bit systems. +such as 2.6.32. It will work on both 32 and 64 bit systems. ## autobuilds |