Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:59:53 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs |
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What I mean is that the above generation-script should be generated > _once_. The source gets distributed with the generated file, so that > whatever happens you at least get reliable results in a reasonably > heterogenous environment.
Put another way that maybe is a clearer example:
- when I download the binary rpm of package "foo-2.3.5.rpm", should I really have to care on what machine it was compiled?
A lot of old-time UNIX people seem to think that everybody compiles sources themselves. That's madness. Yes, it's important that you _can_. But you shouldn't have to. If I hear that the new feature 2.3.5 of package "foo" supports the new filesystem layout that I've been waiting for, should I have to pray that the person who compiled the binary happened to use one of the development kernels where that feature was actually implemented?
Or should I have to recompile it myself to make sure?
Or, wonder of wonders, should it just WORK?
I think the latter. And I hope I've made clear to everybody why a software package must NOT EVER depend on what kernel version happened to be installed when it was compiled. And why it is so _important_ that nobody even by mistake does this. EVER.
The defense rests.
Linus
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