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