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  When I build IUP, I don't decide which libc I will use. I simply
type make and gcc do the rest. That's when it is "decided".

Scuri


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Wendell P <wendellp@operamail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014, at 08:06 AM, Antonio Scuri wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> Who decides the build environment?  Version 3.10.1 of IUP requires glibc
> 3.14, probably because of the memcpy issue, so it is probably not
> necessary. Distributed binaries are usually linked to older versions
> (e.g. glibc 2.2) so they will be compatible with more systems. As it is,
> the current version can't run on many systems.
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