Binary compatibility on Linux

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 11/11/2012 01:19 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> I'm not a Linux expert, but I'm fairly certain the answer is "You
> can't". Linux is very good at a lot of things, but standardization is
> definitely not one of them. Linux is just far too divergent ("herding
> cats" comes to mind) for a widely-compatible binary to be realistic.
> The best that can be done is make a dead-simple-to-use script to grab
> dependencies (isolated from the rest of the system if need be) and
> compile.

I think you're most likely right -- at least, it's impossible in the general 
case if not perhaps for a narrow band of widely-used distros.

It's just that I think people were answering a different question from that 
which the OP asked, and I think his actual question deserves a decent answer 
(even if it's a negative one).