From: Mark Gilbert (markgilbert@hotpop.com)
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 18:12:45 EST
> > 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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