glibc on avlinux
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Qualitymix
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glibc on avlinux
Hey gmaq, will avlinux ever see glibc updated? Ive had two plugins now that I cant compile because of that stupid requirement
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Re: glibc on avlinux
Hi,
@Qualitymix
To be honest AV Linux 6.0.X and Debian Wheezy both have the same '2.13' version of glibc, so in this case even if AV Linux had moved to Debian 7 by now anything requiring glibc 2.15 or higher would still be no-go. I also think it is very short-sighted of developers creating binaries to use versions of glibc that are that new. Perhaps you could ask the developers of the plugins if they would be interested in relaxing the version of glibc they build against. For example 'Shotcut' which is a video editor by the creator of KIno and the MLT Framework used by Kdenlive originally had it's binaries built against glibc 2.15 however when the author realized that Debian 7.0 users were left out in the cold he changed the glibc version to 2.13 and therefore opened his great application up to a much larger audience.
It is also important to realize that AV Linux being as 'current' as it is has some limitations and it is already quite mature in it's base libraries so although it can still offer a lot...it won't do everything. Plugins are great but I sometimes wonder if people collect them like boy-scout badges just because they can, there are enough good plugins out there for Linux Audio users that I think if a certain one is not available there are others which can be used in lieu of with equal results, in other words if I can ship 500 or more plugins and miss out on 2 or 3 I don't feel like that makes AVL obsolete...(not yet anyway
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PS, glibc 2.15 in Debian Jessie had some bugs in it that adversely affected Audio performance, I would guess/hope that has been resolved by now though...
@Qualitymix
To be honest AV Linux 6.0.X and Debian Wheezy both have the same '2.13' version of glibc, so in this case even if AV Linux had moved to Debian 7 by now anything requiring glibc 2.15 or higher would still be no-go. I also think it is very short-sighted of developers creating binaries to use versions of glibc that are that new. Perhaps you could ask the developers of the plugins if they would be interested in relaxing the version of glibc they build against. For example 'Shotcut' which is a video editor by the creator of KIno and the MLT Framework used by Kdenlive originally had it's binaries built against glibc 2.15 however when the author realized that Debian 7.0 users were left out in the cold he changed the glibc version to 2.13 and therefore opened his great application up to a much larger audience.
It is also important to realize that AV Linux being as 'current' as it is has some limitations and it is already quite mature in it's base libraries so although it can still offer a lot...it won't do everything. Plugins are great but I sometimes wonder if people collect them like boy-scout badges just because they can, there are enough good plugins out there for Linux Audio users that I think if a certain one is not available there are others which can be used in lieu of with equal results, in other words if I can ship 500 or more plugins and miss out on 2 or 3 I don't feel like that makes AVL obsolete...(not yet anyway
)PS, glibc 2.15 in Debian Jessie had some bugs in it that adversely affected Audio performance, I would guess/hope that has been resolved by now though...