[Slackbuilds-users] Build Environment Reminder

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo willysr at slackbuilds.org
Thu Aug 13 02:29:50 UTC 2026


>I suggest reverting the VERSION to the last one that worked without 
>newer GLIBC - I guess 8.1.0 (as for signal-desktop-legacy, which could 
>then be removed). The README could then be expanded to mention that 
>later versions would require the newer GLIBC but could still be
>"built" by setting the VERSION appropriately in the environment e.g.
>     VERSION=8.21.0 bash signal-desktop.SlackBuild
>
>Whenever a new version is released, the README could be updated 
>acccordingly rather than updating signal-desktop.{info,SlackBuild} as 
>would normally be the case
>
>This way a user would always be able to run the latest version
>provided they install the newer GLIBC (which they already need to do
>at the moment anyway).

This is the same thing that i did with libreoffice (binary repack)
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/office/libreoffice/

it stuck at 25.8.x branch due to GLIBC


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Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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