standard dependancy system

[Patryk Zawadzki]

2007/12/11, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
> As was proved by many projects setting up a system to build different
> packages for different distributions is doable (as oppose to producing
> the magical works everywhere unified binary).

It's actually just a matter of contacting packagers to either ask for
a build environment (which takes an hour to set up on your own machine
at most) or giving them a pre-built (possibly non-working) copy and
kindly asking to write a SPEC-file free of charge.

> > 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.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution