We'd like to continue the production of the 32-bit deb packages

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 16/08/2019 20:43, dreamnext at gmail.com wrote:
> What we did if after a ‘make’ with errors, we had to ran ‘make 
> build-nocheck’ to be able to bypass those errors on a Debian 10 schroot 
> environment. This time, the required debs files were produced. However, 
> when installing those debs and trying to run LibreOffice on Escuelas 
> Linux (the main target distribution) it does not work, as it complains 
> about a glibc mismatch version. So, it seems that the generated deb 
> files are not distribution-independent as the ones that were previously 
> released by The Document Foundation.

Note that producing builds that are compatible with our baseline (as 
spelled out in README.md) is a non-trivial endeavour.  You typically do 
such builds on a baseline machine to make sure you do not link against 
functionality in e.g. libc.so.6 that is only available in newer versions 
of that library.  However, a baseline machine typically has a C++ 
compiler that is too old for our needs, so you need a newer compiler but 
which generates code that only links against functionality that is 
already available in the baseline libstdc++.so.6 (e.g., by using Red Hat 
Developer Toolset).