Hi, On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:37:51PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > just for the record, the programmer did fine -- he modified the > program and got it working on his Ubuntu system, and created a > binary for me. The problem now is to get the binary to work on my > Wheezy or Jessie system.
It's not really reasonable to expect a binary built on a completely different Linux distribution to run unchanged on your own machines. I mean, it can be achieved, with some care, but is not the normal way to do this. You would be better off having your build and production environments being the same. Ideally that could be achieved by both your developer and you building/running the binary from a chroot of the same thing, e.g. whatever version of Ubuntu the developer is using. If the developer can't build this in a chroot then you could just run it in a chroot that matches what the developer is building it in. If your developer hopes to be building software for use by multiple people on Debian and Ubuntu, they would be well advised to look into how to build proper Debian packages, using pbuilder or cowbuilder or whatever, so they can distribute deb files for stable, oldstable etc. without any of these concerns. Or, your developer should deliver only portable source to you, and you compile that yourself. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
