Mark, This looks like a good FAQ and I think it should be added to the TWiki. Want to give it a shot? If not, I'll do it, maybe in a few days.
Randy Kramer On Wednesday 29 January 2003 06:12 pm, Mark Gilbert wrote: > > > Why can't there be a single > > > binary that runs on all releases/distros just as Windows > > > binaries are? > > That's called a statically linked binary. The type distributed by > ulb is known as dynamically linked or shared binary. Fully static > binaries include their own personal copies of every single snippet of > code they could possibly need, and dont depend on anything but a > kernel running (in this context) and under the same cpu architecture > family (as any binary). This is in most cases quite unnecessary and > inefficient. Some people do have dep problems. It happens. > Anyway, unless you intend to roll your own, you could ask Saenyor > Ogley to do 8.0 binaries, or make available static ones. Or make > available to us (to use, not to have) a suse 8.0 dev box with the > stuff we need (the deps, the deps' headers, proper compiler, linker, > etc) and someone will eventually sign on and build abi. > I'm not volunteering because I have other outstanding obligations of > that nature to fufill before I make new ones. > > Hope this info helps > -MG > > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
