[CentOS] Building for older versions

Mon Nov 23 17:00:08 UTC 2015
Michael Eager <eager at eagerm.com>

On 11/23/2015 08:06 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> On 11/23/2015 04:33 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
>> Hi --
>>
>> I'm trying to build an application on CentOS 7 which
>> can run on older versions of CentOS.  I'm running into
>> problems with versioning of memcpy in Glibc.  Executables
>> built on CentOS 7 require memcpy from glibc-2.14, which
>> causes the program not to load on systems with older
>> versions of glibc.
>>
>> My online search suggests to add an asm() with a .symver
>> option to select memcpy from glibc-2.2.5 in each of the
>> source files which reference memcpy().  This isn't practical
>> with a program with tens of thousands of source files.
>>
>> Does anyone have a reasonable solution?
>
> IMO you should really be building your app on an older Centos version (5 or 6). Then your binary
> should run everywhere, though it may sometimes require installing a -compat package.

That causes a number of other problems, when the only issue is
accessing a working version of memcpy from the installed glibc.


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