Date:	Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:57:06 +0200 (WET)
From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DJGPP under linux
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I believe you meant to post this to djgpp-workers, so I redirected it.
> 
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > Therefore one question:
> > 
> > 	maybe it's worth to make binaries from cross-development for DJGPP
> > 	under Linux available. I could make packages usable for
> >         Slackware-7 (should work also on other glibc-2.1 based systems).
> > 	I'm not using RedHat distribution, so don't ask RPMs from me.
> 
> If this binary distribution is going to work with a wide variety of Linux 
> systems and for many different versions of the kernel and libc, then it's 
> probably a good idea.
> 
> But if the binaries will become outdated by the next release of the 
> kernel, or if different Linux distributiosn are incompatible with each 
> other in ways that affect the GCC binaries, then the binary distribution 
> might create more problems than they solve.
> 

I don't think kernel version is significant.

About libc versions. I think it should work with any recent Linux
distribution (for example gcc-2.95.2 binaries I have built for
Slackware-7.0 has been sucessfully used on Mandrake-6.1). They will not
work on old versions of distributions (like Slackware-4.0 and earlier,
RedHat older than 6.0, etc)

For newer versions usually old shared libraries are included for 
compatibility reasons, so I don't think they'll stop to work
very soon.

Andris

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