Re: tlug: ccp

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > dangerous, by the way.  only if the shared libraries are identical on the
> > two systems is this safe
> 
> Sure, if you're doing this with something like mozilla that uses zillions
> of shared libraries. My recommendation was for his gcc/egcs problem.  
> Even if he compiled egcs on a libc5 box, he'll still end up with a working
> binary for his target box -- egcs uses ONE shared library (libc)[1], and
> I've yet to see a fresh RH or TL install that didn't have HJ's
> compatibility libraries around.
> 
> I think that's the first time I've seen you spread FUD ;)

I wouldn't run a libc5-built egcs on a glibc system.  That aside, what
about if it's the other way around?  That would definitely break.

It's not FUD - it's simply good practice not to mix & match libraries if
you can at all help it.  Considering that egcs doesn't need a working
compiler to build itself, a simple untar, ./configure, make, make install
on the target machine would probably work fine.  As would d/l'ing my
.src.rpm and doing 'rpm --rebuild egcs-1.1.1-2TL.src.rpm' (that would
build a new binary RPM from source).

> 
> -- Chris
> 
> [1] (for those pedantic souls [like me] out there) Yeah, it'll still try
>     to use ld-linux.so.1 in this instance, that's fixed with a one-line
>     change in the specs file.

ld-linux.so.1 is also included for compatibility on both TL and RH, to the
best of my knowledge.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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