RHEL 8 support

[Phil Thompson]

On 20/12/2024 00:14, Greg Couch wrote:
> Actually, it's a bigger problem.  Red Hat 9 uses glib 2.34.  So it
> won't install there either.
> 
>     -- Greg
> 
> On 12/19/24 15:39, Greg Couch wrote:
>> Is there going to be a (commercial) downloadable version of PyQt 6.8 
>> that supports Red Hat 8?   According to 
>> https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/supported-platforms.html, Red Hat 8 is still 
>> supported.  But the released PyQt 6.8 requires glibc 2.35 
>> (manylinux_2_35_x86_64) and Red Hat 8 uses glibc 2.28, so it won't 
>> install.  I see the same problem with the PyQt6-Qt6 and 
>> PyQt6-WebEngine downloads.
>> 
>>     -- Greg

The only way I can guarantee a wheel will work is to specify a manylinux 
version that matches the GLIBC of the build system. By "work" I mean it 
will run once installed (rather than can be installed and run). I've 
always tried to use Ubuntu when I can (mainly for historical reasons), 
but that has the disadvantage of tending to use more modern versions of 
packages.

However, it is quite easy for me to switch the distro to use for the 
build system so I'll do some testing with Centos 8.

Phil