Binary compatibility on Linux

[Iain Buclaw]

On 10 November 2012 17:39, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:
> Am 10.11.2012 16:40, schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
>
>> What's the best way to achieve binary compatibility on Linux? For
>> example, if I compile an application on, say Ubuntu 12.04, it will most
>> likely not run on any older versions of Ubuntu but it will run on future
>> versions.
>>
>> My current approach to solve this is to compile the application in the
>> oldest version of Ubuntu I can find, in this case 6.x. This is starting
>> to get a bit problematic:
>>
>> * The integration with VirtuaBox (I'm running Ubuntu as a guest) is
>> pretty bad
>> * DMD won't run of out of the box, I need to compile it. This is also
>> making DVM basically useless
>> * I can't clone the dlang repositories due to having a very old version
>> of git installed
>> * I can't compile git, I haven't investigated in why but probably due to
>> the system is too old
>>
>> Is there some compiler/linker flags I can use when building to make the
>> executable compatibility with older versions of Linux?
>>
>> Or is there a better way to solve this?
>>
>
> I guess the right answer is to have everything compiled statically,
> especially if you need compatibility across distributions.
>
> --
> Paulo

Or ship the binary with it's dependencies all together as one package.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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