Re: errors compiling bcachefs-tools v1.20.0 on debian 12

["John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>]

>>>>> "Malte" == Malte Schröder <malte.schroeder@tnxip.de> writes:

> On 18/03/2025 22:04, John Stoffel wrote:
>>>>>>> "Malte" == Malte Schröder <malte.schroeder@tnxip.de> writes:
>>> Libs in Debian 12/Bookworm are too old for bcachefs-tools. I think
>>> someone pulled it of by forcing some libs from Trixie, but that caused
>>> other things to break.
>> So what is the best Linux distro to use to compile bcachefs-tools?
>> And can someone upgrade the INSTALL.md doc and the
>> https://bcachefs.org website to talk about what is the best
>> development environment now to use as a baseline?  And how to
>> cross-compile the bcachefs-tools for use on older distros with newer
>> kernels?  
>> 
>> I'm sure more people would test and play with bcachefs if there was
>> more docs for ends users to work from.
>> 
>> John

> I'd recommend you join #bcache at OFTC. This kind of things has been
> and still is discussed there and people have found solutions that
> worked for them regarding -tools vs Bookworm. My personal "solution"
> was to upgrade to Trixie.

I'm old, but for some reason I've never done IRC.  :-)  Is there a
base OS (Fedora?) that people use for development which I can use to
cross build a package for Debian?