Any chance of getting FrontPanel 4.2.5 compiled for an Enterprise Linux 6 flavor OS (maybe RedHat or CentOS)? FC17 uses too new a version of glibc (2.14 vs 2.12) which means any customer running even the most recent version of Enterprise Linux is out of luck.
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Any chance of getting FrontPanel 4.2.5 compiled for an Enterprise Linux 6 flavor OS (maybe RedHat or CentOS)? FC17 uses too new a version of glibc (2.14 vs 2.12) which means any customer running even the most recent version of Enterprise Linux is out of luck.
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Agreed! We make heavy use of CentOS and Debian because of their stable release processes and roadmap, but an artifact of this is that fundamental components (like libc and libc++) are behind players like Fedora and Ubuntu. I for one would certainly welcome some builds for those distros, and I presume that it would not take much time or effort to provide them. Otherwise we are stuck with a very old (soon to be obsolete?) build.
CentOS 6.4:
- glibc Version: 2.12
- glibc++ Version: 3.4.13 (need 3.4.15)
Debian 7:
- glibc Version: 2.13-38 (need 2.14)
- glibc++ Version: 3.4.17
So oddly enough, the problem with FrontPanel on CentOS 6.4 is “ImportError: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found" because C++ is not new enough, whereas on Debian 7, the error is "ImportError: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: versionGLIBC_2.14’ not found” because libc is not new enough.