Mark Cuss wrote: > I'm pretty certain that I'm not the only person who struggles with the "Oh, > that app was built on RH 8 so it won't run on RH 7.3" problems, so I'm > trying to find a solution where I can configure my build system in such a > way that I can distribute a set of libraries with my applications to that > it will run on any distro - at least all of the Red Hats, Fedora Cores, and > RHELs anyways.
Why restrict yourself to a small subset of the list of distros? With a little bit of effort you can handle Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Mandrake and others too. This question was asked a while go on another mailing list. I posted what I do there in that list. Here is a pointer to an archive of my method of platform independence. Basically I bundle all of the libraries and wrap the executable in a script wrapper. http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=32310 This is off-topic for this list. But I am happy to discuss the issues with you either directly or in a more appropriate forum. Bob
