On Sunday 06 May 2007 05:07:48 Michael Hanke wrote: > But sometimes upstream does not agree. > > Nevertheless, when they say, 'we provide binaries for Linux', they always > mean i386 Linux with everything linked statically to a huge binary blob. > > I'd really like to be able to provide some hard numbers about users of > similar packages (same field or a direct competitor) running it on > arches different from i386.
Worse, it's usually *called* a "static" binary in their download list, but running ldd on it shows it actually depends on specific versions of twelve different libraries only found in an old development build of Fedora. ;) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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