On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> Just how different are these various Linux flavours and their compilere?
Not a lot, the main pain is the version of glibc they use. If this is
earlier than the one used in our RH builds it will not work, for later
versions, this improves to "perhaps". It's more like moving between major
releases of RH than say Linux to Solaris.
So I wouldn't expect this to be quite as much effort or pain as people
seem to be suggesting. Generally our code will have already been built
against a particular gcc/glibc combination already, or we should be
getting ready to make the necessary changes anyway, since that glibc or
gcc is just around the corner.
As you can see from the IRAF table I included, they support different
flavours with the same binaries when possible.
Peter.
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