On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 07:19 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[…]
> I'm not a Linux expert, but I'm fairly certain the answer is "You
> can't". Linux is very good at a lot of things, but standardization is
> definitely not one of them. Linux is just far too divergent ("herding
> cats" comes to mind) for a widely-compatible binary to be realistic.
> The best that can be done is make a dead-simple-to-use script to grab
> dependencies (isolated from the rest of the system if need be) and
> compile.
[…]There is only one Linux, well except that they keep evolving it and changing the version number. Linux is very standardized in that there is only one. There is no Linux divergence as there was UNIX divergence. There are many, many, Linux-based distributions. The compilers vary, the version of Linux varies, the libraries vary, the packaging system varies. Binary compatibility across all of these is clearly impossible. This is not a problem, this is the antithesis of problem, as long as you allow the platform packagers to package or ship source and a build specification. Hence aptitude, yum, Waf and such stuff. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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