standard dependancy system

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Dec 11 08:08:42 PST 2007


Le Mar 11 décembre 2007 17:02, Patryk Zawadzki a écrit :
> 2007/12/11, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:

>> > Actually a better way
>> > would be to provide distributions with precompiled object files
>> and
>> > let us do the linking with proper versions of libraries but that
>> is
>> > prone to sniffing symbols.
>>
>> Relinking object files produced by different GCC versions is not
>> supported by the GCC team, so it may break without warning at any
>> moment.
>
> Yes but still easier to distribute objects for each gcc/arch pair than
> produce binaries for each distro/arch if they don't want packagers to
> help.

Every distribution is going to have a different GCC patchlevel, and
different GCC defaults, so each gcc/arch pair maps 1:1 to every
distribution version.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot


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