[pypy-dev] pypy 5.10.1 release candidates are up, please try them out

[Matti Picus]

On 13/01/18 00:03, Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Neal,
>
> On 12 January 2018 at 20:35, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So Fedora has libbz2.so.1 and libbz2.so.1.0.6, but no libbz2.so.1.0.  In
>> fact, isn't depending on libbz2.so.1.0 an error?
> Unless I'm mistaken, it's what we get from ``gcc -lbz2`` on Ubuntu.
> If you think doing so gives a dependency that is erroneous, then the
> problem is either inside gcc or Ubuntu, not PyPy.
>
> In general, taking a binary compiled for Linux distribution X and
> trying to use it in Linux distribution Y only works if the stars are
> correctly aligned.  This is known and documented in
> http://pypy.org/download.html#linux-binaries-and-common-distributions
>
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.
>
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561175,
confirming what Armin said - this is a Debian/Ubuntu issue, and AFAICT 
only should affect libbz2.
The "solution" for the RPM-based users would be to manually create the 
symbolic link, or to use the portable builds.
Matti