Re: Abiword on linux

From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 12:59:24 EST

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    Mark,

    Misplaced your response, but I did "go for it" -- see
    http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/UnixFaqWhySoManyLinuxBinaries.

    Randy Kramer

    On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:58 am, Randy Kramer wrote:
    > Mark,
    >
    > This looks like a good FAQ and I think it should be added to the
    > TWiki. Want to give it a shot? If not, I'll do it, maybe in a few
    > days.
    >
    > Randy Kramer
    >
    > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 06:12 pm, Mark Gilbert wrote:
    > > > > Why can't there be a single
    > > > > binary that runs on all releases/distros just as Windows
    > > > > binaries are?
    > >
    > > That's called a statically linked binary. The type distributed by
    > > ulb is known as dynamically linked or shared binary. Fully static
    > > binaries include their own personal copies of every single snippet
    > > of code they could possibly need, and dont depend on anything but a
    > > kernel running (in this context) and under the same cpu
    > > architecture family (as any binary). This is in most cases quite
    > > unnecessary and inefficient. Some people do have dep problems. It
    > > happens. Anyway, unless you intend to roll your own, you could ask
    > > Saenyor Ogley to do 8.0 binaries, or make available static ones.
    > > Or make available to us (to use, not to have) a suse 8.0 dev box
    > > with the stuff we need (the deps, the deps' headers, proper
    > > compiler, linker, etc) and someone will eventually sign on and
    > > build abi.
    > > I'm not volunteering because I have other outstanding obligations
    > > of that nature to fufill before I make new ones.
    > >
    > > Hope this info helps
    > > -MG
    > >
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