Compiling for multiple Linux distros

[Andrew Haley]

Donal Riordan wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to compile a simple hello world program to an executable that
> will work on both my test distros; Ubuntu 7.10 & Fedora 8. Everything
> works fine when I compile and execute on the same system but I cannot
> execute a binary on Ubuntu when it was compiled in Fedora and vice-versa.
> 
> Running the Fedora binary on Ubuntu generates the error:
> error while loading shared libraries: libgcj.so.8rh: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Running the Ubuntu binary on Fedora generates:
> libgcj failure: gcj linkage error.
> Incorrect library ABI version detected.  Aborting.

Compile everything with -findirect-dispatch.

Andrew.