[Slackbuilds-users] Build Environment Reminder

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo willysr at slackbuilds.org
Tue Aug 11 05:31:57 UTC 2026


>        Signal is  an important package,  so perhaps
>  we can make the SlackBuild patch the binary itself
>  and thus  it would work on  Slackware 15.0 without
>  user intervention.   I wrote  some instructions[1]
>  on my  website, and wrote a  script[2] to automate
>  the patching process.  The  patch forces Signal to
>  use a glibc install  in /opt using rpath.  Perhaps
>  we can  provide a simple  glibc-opt-bin SlackBuild
>  which would install glibc  from /testing into /opt
>  to support the installation of Signal (and perhaps
>  other packages that may  follow the same pattern).
>  I've been using  Signal on 15.0 for  more than two
>  months in this manner; it's stable and works well.


For library as important as glibc, i am not recommending to have
multiple installation and push it to SBo.
That would be much more complicated for us to maintain in the future.
Best to stick with the current glibc we have in stable

--
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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