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Re: How to make an application look somewhere other than /lib for ld-linux.so.2
Mark Cuss wrote:
> I'm pretty certain that I'm not the only person who struggles with the "Oh,
> that app was built on RH 8 so it won't run on RH 7.3" problems, so I'm
> trying to find a solution where I can configure my build system in such a
> way that I can distribute a set of libraries with my applications to that
> it will run on any distro - at least all of the Red Hats, Fedora Cores, and
> RHELs anyways.
Why restrict yourself to a small subset of the list of distros? With
a little bit of effort you can handle Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Mandrake
and others too.
This question was asked a while go on another mailing list. I posted
what I do there in that list. Here is a pointer to an archive of my
method of platform independence. Basically I bundle all of the
libraries and wrap the executable in a script wrapper.
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=32310
This is off-topic for this list. But I am happy to discuss the issues
with you either directly or in a more appropriate forum.
Bob