compile with different libc for different distro
 

Hi all,

I recently ported my code to linux, and am still not very safe here.

My project is a shared library which is a plugin to some other software. It builds fine on my ubuntu 6 box. Unfortunately I need a build for RHEL 4, which is not available to me.
I tried fc3, as it is the older brother of RHEL4, but couldn't get my IDE to build, which is codeblocks. Codeblocks does not use makefiles and therefore I am stuck somehow.

I assume, by linking against libc-2.3 my binary should run on RHEL4. Is this possible or a wrong assumption?

Is there a clean way to install libc-2.3 on ubuntu 6 together with headers and whatever I need?

The binary uses xerces-c and boost libraries which I built myself and distribute along with my binary. So I assume dependencies on a specific distro should be small.

Is there a better headline for this or a better forum?

thank you all for your help, I am really in a trouble, but don't know how to proceed.

CentOS is the same thing as RedHat, so you might try that.

CentOS == RedHat
 

Thank you for your help. Seems like a valuable hint. Just for clarity, does it mean it is even more like RedHat than Fedora?

Well, anyway I will start the download and try.

It is built with the same source code as RedHat, but without the trademarked RedHat images. In effect, it is exactly the same. Fedora is built using different a different (but closely related) codebase, so it does work somewhat differently.

If what you want to do works on RedHat, chances are 99% it works in CentOS.