Re: develop for older debian versions
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 05:41:46PM +0200, S. Jacobi wrote:
> I develop software that should run on older debian releases starting
> with wheezy. I would build directly in a VM with such an install, but
> the problem is that my toolchain requires some rather modern pieces
> which are not available in those versions.
> Most libraries will be linked statically, the only exceptions being
> libc and libstdc++.
> Any ideas how to make it work?
You have three basic options.
1. Get all your toolchain's dependencies into backports.
2. Build all those dependencies in /usr/local or /opt
3. Use a different toolchain.
-dsr-
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