Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 12:48:58 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Thomas Runge <runge@rostock.zgdv.de> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa (fwd) Message-ID: <199909081948.MAA36697@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Sep 1999 21:37:17 %2B0200." <37D6BAED.67E1D90F@rostock.zgdv.de>
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True, however binary compatibility in the linux sense has nothing to do with different versions of their libraries. For example as long they all compiled against the same library set including libc or glibc then everything is "fine" or so goes the linux story and the linux mode can only help you so far for even though we are in a good position to swap linux libraries to our hearts contents it does not mean that setup for X application is going to let you run Y set of applications which were compiled with a different version of libraries. Just recently tested java across different linux distributions and just about all of them failed in one way or another. The picture is not too bright in the linux camp. > Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > I think that what the group wants is the ability to share binaries and the > > problem with that in linux is its highly incompatibility of different > > versions of libc or glibc. > > Gna, just read the document. It's almost all about binary compatibility. > Hopefully we or the Linuxers won't go the Windows way in providing only > binaries for apps... Even if we've got a good Linux mode, there is > NetBSD > as well with a lot of non-x86 architectures, which will suffer from it. > > -- > Tom > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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