On Sat, 5 Jul 2014, website reader wrote:

> Is there someway to insure that linux programs can stand-alone?

Randall,

   Yes. Build all libraries into the executable instead of using shared
libraries.

> I upgraded to the gcc v4.9.0 compiler, but when I attempted to remove the
> older gcc v4.8.1 compiler, lots of programs broke.

> Thanks for your comments here.

   It's not common to upgrade gcc without upgrading the entire distribution
because everything on the system was built with the compliler included in
the distribution. So, it's that version of shared object (.so) libraries
that the applications try, and fail, to find.

   You could rebuild everything using the newer gcc version, but why bother
upgrading in the first place? If your distribution is current the developers
have tuned everything to work together.

Rich
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