Gavin Lambert wrote: > Still, I don't think that's much more complicated, especially since it's not > likely to come up too often (although I guess that depends on what kind of > software it is).
It's not actually hard, but you do have to pay it some attention. Typical app Makefiles etc. don't produce the relinkable form, so it's a complication in the sense that people aren't used to doing it - and I haven't yet seen anyone doing it on a uClinux system with proprietary apps linked to uClibc, which bothers me. If you get a request in the following 3 years, and if you didn't archive the relinkable forms at the time you built/distributed your app, you may not be able to reproduce the _exact_ binary in relinkable form corresponding to that app instance, which is required. A later app version, or even one with bug fixes, or compiled with another compiler, is not good enough in principle. I just wanted to draw attention to this, since I feel there are quite a lot of proprietary apps linked to uClibc out there whose vendors aren't complying, perhaps due to widespread misunderstanding. -- Jamie _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
