> Just how different are these various Linux flavours and their compilere?
Not much, the main difference is when they all move to new flavours of
gcc/glibc, they rarely do so "in sync" as it were. So if our "prefered
platform" moved went to a non-backwards compatible glibc version, and
nobody else did (RH has done this at least once!), then our software
isn't binary compatible (must be built from source) for all the
other distributions.
Of course when Starlink Classic is in CVS amd builds using ./configure
then this isn't going to be a problem. This is what GNU Configure is
designed to deal with automatically...
Al.
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