On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Dag Wieers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Dag Wieers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's pretty cynical to learn that at Google the RHEL packages have been
>>> build in an Ubuntu environment, rather than properly packaged on the same
>>> distribution. A practice that almost everyone is doing today.
>>>
>>> It's amazing that this even worked, we'd be better off if it didn't...
>>
>> They must be using mock, which is available in Ubuntu.
>
> They cannot be using mock, otherwise it wouldn't pick up the newer, alien
> libstdc++ from Ubuntu 12.04. Besides, if they did it would all have
> magically worked (or not have built at all).
>
>     Version     : 27.0.1453.110
>     Build Host: lin64build12.chrome.corp.google.com
>
> vs
>
>     Version     : 28.0.1500.70
>     Build Host: precise64build2.chrome.corp.google.com
>     RPM version: 4.9.1.1
>
> So the RPM version pretty much gives away that they do not build on RHEL.
> And rpm-4.9.1.1 is exactly what ships with Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (aka
> Ubuntu 12.04).
>
> Need more proof ? :-)

No, thanks! LOL

I should've checked myself before assuming that they'd build the way
that everyone else does...