QtLocation map updates

Lubomir I. Ivanov neolit123 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 08:27:30 PDT 2017


On 2 August 2017 at 18:15, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 2, 2017, at 4:17 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>
>> i was under the impression that the AppImage was supposed to make *us*
>> happy, as developers.
>
> So true.
>
>> why isn't it working with more recent Qt versions?
>
> The logic of an AppImage is that you build on an OLD distro so that the glibc
> that you link against is an old one and the binaries run on as many distros as
> possible. We are building against CentOS 6 right now and the newest Qt that
> I can get for that is 5.6.
>

maybe it's time to drop CentOS support until they update their Qt?
5.6 is 1.5 year old now.

> My guess is that I should just build Qt 5.9.1 from source and be done with it.
> But I'm not sure that I can get a new enough compiler for CentOS 6 in order
> to do that.
>
> BTW, Lubomir, which Linux distro do you usually work with?
>

Ubuntu. the most experience i have with Debian based distros, while
also some with RedHat and Slackware, but not much.

lubomir
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