> > 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 ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
