On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Prashant Saxena animator333@yahoo.com wrote:
The solution is to use as much as old libc as you can to compile the bootloader. It seems CentOS-3 is based on glibc 2.3, which is pretty old and if I compile and do other stuff of on CentOS-3, it'll do the job and hopefully covers almost all the end user base that I am expecting will use the app. It may possible that I might face some issues with my requirements mentioned below but I have no practical idea about them.
CentOS 3 is ancient and I don't even think is supported by the upstream vendor any longer. If you absolutely need that old version of glibc then using CentOS 4.x (updated) will still give you glibc-2.3.4.
As I mentioned before that I am new to linux and I always prefer to use VirtualBox, when ever I try any new distribution.
In short these are my requirements and I would like to know whether CentOS-3 is the right choice for me or not?
- Use VirtualBox. XP Host &
CentOS-3 guest. 2. python 2.6.4 3. wxPython 2.8.10.1 from wxWidgets repository 4. libcairo 1.8.8 5. pycairo 1.8.6 6. couple of other python modules.
All these are newer. I'm not certain I understand the requirement for glibc 2.3? You mentioned a bootloader but that is usually quite separate from glibc and other applications.