The linux builds are broken

[rt121212121]

Someone who didn't understand how things work moved the node building outside of the manylinux environment.. the whole reason we have cibuildwheel and manylinux is so that the node is built inside it so that the binaries are compatible with as many linuxes as possible. There is literally no point in having cibuildwheel............................... with this weird undermining of the whole point.

[AustEcon]

This was a long time ago so can't quite remember the reasoning but I was having trouble getting it to compile inside of cibuildwheel and had more luck using the uploaded Centos7 docker image (which matches the distro manylinux2014 uses)... And IIRC makes the build time a lot faster because it comes with boost etc. pre-installed.

And I think the rationale at the time was that cibuildwheel performs a number of checks on any binaries included into a wheel and spits the dummy if you try to just include any old x86_64 binary you compiled on e.g. ubuntu.

And at the time I can vaguely remember deciding that if we have a wheel on pypi that works on ubuntu then that's good enough for our purposes and didn't want to waste any more time on it at that moment (but I did think it would still have good chances of giving an identical outcome to building it on the cibuildwheel's centos7 docker image seeing as though it's linking against the same system libraries etc.).

What linux distro is it now not compatible with out of interest?