Harish Pillay wrote: >> If you have a distro and your program which is LSB compliant you will not >> see much problems. > > Yes, that is what LSB has helped achieve.
not completely though. the LSB Application Testing suite checks for symbol usage across what can be called the "highest common factor" ie hugely generic across distributions. there are still distribution specific symbols (among other things) that applications can and do use and hence require rebuilds across distributions -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
