From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 12:59:24 EST
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
> >
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