From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 06:58:17 EST
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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