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> So if you want a binary to work across multiple distributions, you can build it on a really old CentOS and if you are lucky it will work, but I have no trust
by rrdharan 5y ago
> So if you want a binary to work across multiple distributions, you can build it on a really old CentOS and if you are lucky it will work, but I have no trust in this.
For a very long time (decades?) VMware's Linux build system relied on exactly this ability, and managed to ship and support a binary package on many different Linux distributions using this approach.
Not sure if it still works this way, but I'd say I have trust in it.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoIs the libstdc++ (whether static or dynamic) ABI stable enough for one C++ binary to run across many Linux distributions?
- int_19h 5y agoThis is the standard way of building binary packages for Python that run across many distros. They even provide the "official" containers to build in. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0600/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0600/