Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-14 Thread Vikas Upadhyay
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Anoop John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > did you get the RHEL3 one working on Fedora 8 ? > > Yes I did get the application running on Fedora 8 and the user tested > the application for basic funct

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-14 Thread Anoop John
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > did you get the RHEL3 one working on Fedora 8 ? Yes I did get the application running on Fedora 8 and the user tested the application for basic functionalities. I have not heard back from the company and I believe they will contac

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Raj Shekhar
in infinite wisdom Dinesh Shah spoke thus On 04/13/2008 09:55 PM: > What the kernel version has to do with running a program? It is the > libraries that matter while running any binary. Some posters here has > already asked the OP to run ldd and find the library dependencies. There might be subt

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Harish Pillay wrote: >> If you have a distro and your program which is LSB compliant you will not >> see much problems. > > Yes, that is what LSB has helped achieve. not completely though. the LSB Application Testing suite checks for symbol usage across what can be called the "highest common

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Harish Pillay
> > I guess RHEL 3 is kernel 2.4.X whereas RHEL 4 is 2.6.X. > > Don't know how a binary from 2.4 will run "just like that" on 2.6; if you > > have source you can definitely port it to 2.6. > > So in this case Centos 3 would be the best alternative, as suggested by > > Raj > > (Shekhar). > >

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Dinesh Shah wrote: > What the kernel version has to do with running a program? It is the > libraries that matter while running any binary. Some posters here has > already asked the OP to run ldd and find the library dependencies. there are a few applications which do require specific kernel versi

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Anoop John wrote: > I had a request recently from a firm in Trivandrum to try to set up > their software (Altair Hyperworks) on RHEL 3. I took fedora, assuming > that if it worked on RHEL it would on fedora too, and with some minor > tweaks in the installation script I was able to set it up on Fedo

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Dinesh Shah
Dear Vikas, On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Vikas Upadhyay <> wrote: > > Centos is the closest relative to rhel, not fedora. I suggest using > > centos3 and installing the app on it. > > > I guess RHEL 3 is kernel 2.4.X whereas RHEL 4 is 2.6.X. > Don't know how a binary from 2.4 will run "jus

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Vikas Upadhyay
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Raj Shekhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in infinite wisdom Anoop John spoke thus On 04/11/2008 10:33 AM: > > I had a request recently from a firm in Trivandrum to try to set up > > their software (Altair Hyperworks) on RHEL 3. > > Centos is the closest relative t

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Raj Shekhar
in infinite wisdom Anoop John spoke thus On 04/11/2008 10:33 AM: > I had a request recently from a firm in Trivandrum to try to set up > their software (Altair Hyperworks) on RHEL 3. Centos is the closest relative to rhel, not fedora. I suggest using centos3 and installing the app on it. -- r

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Anoop John
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Shiv wrote: > I've found that a man's best friend in such cases is the ldd command. Shiv - Thanks for the tip. I will find that useful the next time. Does that mean that if all dependencies are met the application would work fine on all distros? Will there be pr

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-11 Thread Shiv
>>From: Anoop John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >If there are dependancies will we >be able to figure them out without having access to the source? Hi, I've found that a man's best friend in such cases is the ldd command. once you have installed this software, you could run ldd against the binary. It wo

[ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-11 Thread Anoop John
I had a request recently from a firm in Trivandrum to try to set up their software (Altair Hyperworks) on RHEL 3. I took fedora, assuming that if it worked on RHEL it would on fedora too, and with some minor tweaks in the installation script I was able to set it up on Fedora 8. So the question is,