Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux? | Date | 13 Mar 1999 11:24:25 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.10.9903122314520.14768-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>, Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> wrote: >On 12 Mar 1999, david parsons wrote: > >> That's not a SO problem. That's a glibc problem. > >No it's not. It's a SO problem. It relies on features in glibc-2.0.7 which >are not present in glibc-2.1.
Which private entry points did they use?
>> david parsons \bi/ Sigh. Static linking -- just say YES. > >Nice idea but impracticable for a suite as large as SO.
I statically link every elf program I have to use these days, because it's the only way to guarantee that it will work. It adds ~250k to each and every binary, which isn't perfect, but in the land of 128mb memory sticks costing US$180 is a lot faster than writing a completely new libc and trying to get other people to use it.
How many _programs_ are in the SO suite?
____ david parsons \bi/ Of course a.out doesn't have this problem, because \/ (other) people aren't poking at the libraries anymore. Bummer I can't get XF3.3.3 to compile as a.out.
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