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Document why some images use different ubuntu version #85

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malbarbo opened this issue Apr 5, 2017 · 3 comments
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Document why some images use different ubuntu version #85

malbarbo opened this issue Apr 5, 2017 · 3 comments

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malbarbo commented Apr 5, 2017

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japaric commented Apr 5, 2017

We do this the get the oldest glibc version possible as linking against the oldest glibc makes the binary more portable (it will work on LTS-ish distros that ship with old glibc). We could use the latest Ubuntu everywhere but then we would have to build a toolchain with an old glibc version ourselves and that would be very expensive CI time wise.

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malbarbo commented Apr 5, 2017

@japaric Thank you for the clarifications!

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This is now documented on the wiki:

Due to backwards compatibility, cross uses older images and repositories for binary compatibility with code compiled against older libc versions. This requires older Ubuntu versions and Linux images. However, this can break some more recent workflows.

We also have images with much newer Ubuntu versions which are pending release in v0.3.0 in #591.

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