On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:12:01PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > Does your binaries run on other x86-64 distributions without any compat > > symlinks ? I think this is an absolute requirement for pure64. > > The binaries will run on all distributions which have > the interpreter accessible as /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2. > Gentoo, Ubuntu and of course pure64 install the interpreter as > /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 today, so the binaries will run on these > distributions without changes. On other distributions it may > be necessary to execute > > ln -sf /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 > > to run the binaries until those distributions install that symlink > themselves.
You cannot do that if you are not root, while you can extract binaries out of Debian packages and run them. For simple stuff it works fine. > Anyway, if you intend to run binaries on different distributions, > you should create binaries which conform to the LSB standard and you > should install the LSB compatibility package on the target > system. Otherwise you will certainly have more serious problems > than the location of the interpreter. Does the LSB compatibility package for RedHat or Suse provide such a symlink ? > P.S.: Do you really want to install Debian binary packages on > other (non-Debian related) distributions (e.g. RedHat, SuSe)? > Have you already tried that and did it work? Yes it works fine for the simple stuff I am interested in (mathematical command-line driven programs). It is far less trouble than installing a proper build environment without root access. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
