2007/12/11, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As was proved by many projects setting up a system to build different > packages for different distributions is doable (as oppose to producing > the magical works everywhere unified binary).
It's actually just a matter of contacting packagers to either ask for a build environment (which takes an hour to set up on your own machine at most) or giving them a pre-built (possibly non-working) copy and kindly asking to write a SPEC-file free of charge. > > Actually a better way > > would be to provide distributions with precompiled object files and > > let us do the linking with proper versions of libraries but that is > > prone to sniffing symbols. > > Relinking object files produced by different GCC versions is not > supported by the GCC team, so it may break without warning at any > moment. Yes but still easier to distribute objects for each gcc/arch pair than produce binaries for each distro/arch if they don't want packagers to help. -- Patryk Zawadzki PLD Linux Distribution _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
