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You can still compile it against the modern version.
And if it's static linked it will either run or you can ask Linus to murder someone for you.
Hmm I'll email Linus
IT'S A BOLD MOVE COTTON, LETS SEE IF IT PAYS OFF!
I was trying to compile the first version of SuperTuxKart just for fun, how naive I were... Nowadays it's like translating ancient runes and good luck finding those ancient libraries
If I may, is there a way to quickly and easily have a disposable/revertible environment for building? For Fedora specifically. It's annoying to install a whole suite of packages because I need them just this once and then either manually delete the ones I didn't manually install before and actually need or just live with a whole bunch of devel packages that'll never be used again
Distrobox might be the easiest way. If you use a custom HOME directory you can even keep the build artefacts isolated.
You can use docker for that. I think there are even some tools to make it easier to use for that use case, but I just use plain docker for it