RE: Managing IUP on Linux

["Antonio Scuri" <scuri@...>]

  Hi Wendell,

> I have had no problems on Windows. Are you interested in reports for old
> releases? The newest version I have working on Linux is v3.1.

  Hoh, no thanks. That's a very old version. Many, many things were fixed
and improved since that version.

> The questions I have about this are:
> 1. Is it necessary to require recent versions of libc?

  The libc association is done by the compiler in link time. I don't have
control over that. As I explained the pre-compiled binaries are assumed to
be used in the same Ubuntu they were built. So these conflicts should never
happen.

 
> 2. Is it necessary to require libraries version =n rather than >=n?

  Sorry, don't understand that question. In which context?

 
> 3. Is it necessary to have IUP find libraries only through
LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

  No. That's not the only way. Take a look at this page:

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/en/building.html

  There is a guide also for installing and using the pre-compiled binaries.
 
  You can install the IUP libraries on the system so they will be found
without having to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This is also true for any library
your application depends on.

Best,
Scuri