Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:57:06 +0200 (WET) From: Andris Pavenis To: Eli Zaretskii cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DJGPP under linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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 But if the binaries will become outdated by the next release of the 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