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It has been several years, but I'm sure there was a version. However, part of the problem was that it wasn't just RHEL that backported stuff. Other distros (l
by drewg123 10y ago
It has been several years, but I'm sure there was a version. However, part of the problem was that it wasn't just RHEL that backported stuff. Other distros (like SLES) did similar things. In the end, it was just easier to do a configure-ish script to see if a function foo() took 3 or 4 arguments than it was track N-different version numbers.
And you're right, if you always build on the base version, then you have greater compat. However, you also loose out on the backported features, many of which were important for performance.