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[Lloyd D Budd]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:06:49 -0500, Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:48:37AM -0500, JoeHill wrote
> 
> > You read my mind...that was my next question re Gentoo, whether there
> > was some choice about building from source or installing pre-compiled
> > binaries. Thanks!
> 
>   I'm getting my feet wet in Gentoo too.  There is a similar discussion
> to this one right now on the Gentoo list.  There are several responses
> similar to "OK.  Debian is that a way --->" (That was the polite version).
I imagine it is a reoccurring discussion on both Gentoo , and to a
lesser extent Debian .

> The webpage at http://dev.gentoo.org/~rac/binaries.html explains some of
> the problems with pre-compiled binaries, such as...

> > The same version of exim is perfectly capable of building and
> > operating properly against either MySQL 3.x or MySQL 4.x, so the
> > dependency can be simply specified as "MySQL". However, a binary
> > built against 4.x cannot be deployed against 3.x, because the soname
> > of the shared library has changed.
 

> Or you
> can compile programs to all use the same shared libraries.  In that case,
> you're down to lowest-common-denominator builds.  And you *MUST* have
> the same or almost the same critical libraries as the machine the
> software was built on.
Well , in some ways this is the point of a distribution .  All
programs using the same well tested "libraries" .  The nature of OSS
-- and demonstrated by Gentoo -- is also that 
lowest-common-denominator is often easy to make "high" .

> This is where "DLL-hell" comes from.  The shared
> DLL model creates dependencies; doesn't matter if it's Windows or linux.
I thought different library versions can often co-exist under Linux --
o , that is obvious because of how Gentoo "works" ;-)

-- 
Peace be in you ,
Lloyd D Budd
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