RPM does not work with RHEL 6.7

[jsloyer]

The RPM for RHEL 6.7 x64 does not work as it fails dependency checks. The spec file for the rpm specifies glibc >= 2.15 while 2.12 is the latest thats available in RHEL 6. I'll be opening a PR for the fix...

/cc @davebachmann

[jsloyer]

PR #9488 submitted with the fix

[Tyriar]

This check was added as RHEL 6 did not work, at least when built on our build system. This check is better than the ambiguous error that follows without it on distros derived from red hat 6.

You can see #3603 and #1056 for some back story on this, as well as our requirements page https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/requirements

[jsloyer]

@Tyriar is there any reason why you need 2.15 of glibc instead of 2.12?

[Tyriar]

@jsloyer that requirement was there before I joined the team so I'm not sure exactly. All my testing running on the latest RHEL6 at the time crashed vscode immediately. Are you running it on RHEL 6.7 without any problems?

[davebachmann]

@Tyriar it appears to be wanting a newer version of libnotify than RHEL 6.7 has so is not starting.
error while loading shared libraries: libnotify.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I only have libnotify.so.1 from libnotify.x86_64 0.5.0-1.el6

[Tyriar]

@davebachmann unfortunately I don't have cycles to invest in this. PRs are welcome if you can improve compatibility with RHEL6, I don't think just downgrading the glibc dep version will be enough though.

[jsloyer]

Myself and @davebachmann are looking into it.

[jsloyer]

@Tyriar it seems vscode depends on libnotify4 but its not called out as a dep, I couldn't find a reference to it in the code base except in the debian build file.