GNU bug report logs - #36276
qtbase@5 doesn't work with Linux < 3.16.0

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Message #38 received at 36276 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me>
Cc: 36276 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36276: Not found .so files in bundle made by guix pack
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:06:16 +0200

Hello,

Andréas Livet <andreas <at> livet.me> skribis:

>> What does “uname -r” return on this CentOS machine?  I’m guessing it’s
>> older than 3.16.0.
>> 3.10.0-957.12.2.el7.x86_64
>
> What a shame, this kernel was release in 2013 !

Yeah.

>> ‘src/corelib/global/minimum-linux_p.h’, we can see this:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> #if QT_CONFIG(getentropy)
>> #  define MINLINUX_MAJOR        3
>> #  define MINLINUX_MINOR        17
>> #  define MINLINUX_PATCH        0
>> #elif QT_CONFIG(renameat2)
>> #  define MINLINUX_MAJOR        3
>> #  define MINLINUX_MINOR        16
>> #  define MINLINUX_PATCH        0
>> #else
>> #  define MINLINUX_MAJOR        2
>> #  define MINLINUX_MINOR        6
>> #  define MINLINUX_PATCH        28
>> #endif
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Well done :D, I didn't have time to investigated as far as you did.

I didn’t “have” the time, I took it.  :-)

> IMHO, don't bother, as you say 3.16.0 is already very old so it's OK
> to let it this way.

Sounds good.

> Maybe it could be worth to mention in guix pack manual that bundle may
> not always works on too old kernel ?
>
> Difficult to be precise because it'll depends on projects, don't
> really know how to write it down in a way it'll help people to
> understand problems like this one.

Yes, it’s a bit hard to document it because it’ll vary from package to
package, and the vast majority of packages don’t care about the kernel
version.

Anyway, thanks for your report, and I hope you can find a suitable
workaround!

Ludo’.

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