On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:44:37PM -0400, Jeff Trawick wrote: > Wouldn't we have to do a full link-edit on the target machine to make > that work portably? One of the nice things about binbuilds is that we > don't give a rip whether the user has a working ld (just an example). > We don't want to care whether or not somebody has working binutils.
I'm not sure what's involved on each platform. I think I remember reading on some platforms, libtool could be tricky and do it without needing a full recompile or relink (it just modifies the binary itself). I'm not sure if that's even possible or not (doesn't seem so). But, yeah, I could see it causing problems on esoteric platforms. Perhaps libtool 1.4.x can do this better than 1.3? > How many problems does it cause? Having to give gdb a different name > is a problem (minor), but how many others are there? ps and other process utilities won't filter on httpd. ps -C httpd, pkill -HUP httpd would all fail if the binary isn't called httpd. Perhaps we could so some sort of transformation for binbuilds that only adds the httpd.bin to those distributions. -- justin
