You don't need Ubuntu itself, gitian runs Ububtu in virtual machine.
Yes, I meant I explicitly make it a point not to run ubuntu anywhere if I can avoid it... VM or no.
Gitian is usefull not only for signing but also to produce statically linked builds for Windows, it is possible to do it in some other way but gitian works just fine for that.
I just use mingw and the normal make flow on windows.
I'm worring not about patches from ltc but about usage of C++11 things like system_clock that may be not available in earlier gcc version that comes with 12.04.
I see. system_clock is only used for srand() which we can easily change to a more traditional srand(time()) sort of thing. Are there other C++11isms that stand out? Sorry, these days I often don't even give a second thought to the fact that I'm using the new stuff, "c++0x style" is just becoming second nature now, heh.
Can you try a build and pastebin output so we can see roughly how many issues we are talking?