squeak linux woes

Jack Johnson fragment at nas.com
Thu Jul 17 22:20:19 UTC 2003


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Question: Does someone know a way to compile a binary that is not tied  
> to a specific GLIBC version? Squeak does not actually use anything  
> fancy from these newer versions, it's just the linker who thinks we  
> would. That would allow us to create binaries that work across a wider  
> range of machines.

Just doing some random Google searches, it looks like it's not uncommon 
to do static linking against *just* glibc and leave the rest dynamic.

I can do some experimentation this weekend, and probably make some 
binaries available.

(hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in)

-Jack



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