From: Doug Sutherland (wearable_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 2002-03-01 11:54:28
Jim,
> I don't think it is so sensitive to the kernel version.
> Most stuff works fine between kernel versions, as far
> as I am aware.
It is a big deal usually between major revs like 2.0.x
and 2.2.x and 2.4.x. I've seen lots of software out
there by companies like IBM and such, they usually
have binaries for major linux revs. That used to be
2.0.x and 2.2.x, now it's 2.2.x and 2.4.x
> However, the GLIBC version is pretty important, as
> the executable links with it.
This is a real pain for binary distribution, and glibc
is huge. On slackware it's close to 100 MB! We can't
really have binaries for all of the glibc versions.
Perhaps for linux we should only have a source version
with a good build script. For Windows we can have
binaries for the various flavours (Win9x, WinNt, Win2K).
-- Doug
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