On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Prashant Saxena <animator333 at 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? > > 1. 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.