[CentOS] No more support for chrome/chromium on rhel6

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Gé Weijers <ge at weijers.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:
>
>> I tried building Chromium in the past for EL6 and I gave up as it was
>> too difficult for me. Of course someone else might succeed in doing so,
>> but even in that case, for how long can he/she keep up with backporting
>> updates and so on?
>>
>
> It would not be 'backporting' if you'd set up a build environment that uses
> a newer GCC and GTK2 library, and statically link against the newer GTK2.
> That's a bit of a pain for release engineering, but it's not rocket
> science. RHEL6/C6 (and Ubuntu 10.04) desktops are probably a tiny fraction
> of Google's user base, so they just may not want to expend the effort.
>
> Alternatively, one could do something tricky like make a special build of
> newer GTK2 libraries built with the newer GCC, and make Chrome load them in
> stead of the regular ones.
>

Just discovered that RH has provided a new developer toolchain a few
weeks ago.  GCC 4.7.2.

http://red.ht/Uo9wej

But it requires a developer subscription. Wondering if this might help
the situation.

-- 
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada