Re: [LIP] Binary compatibility across Linux distros.

Sandip Bhattacharya <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers
Organization Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Amarendra Godbole wrote:
> 
> gcc infopage has some details on the ABI compatibility of C binaries, 
> all I could deduce was I can execute a statically compiled binary 
> as-is on any other Linux distro. This is for gcc-3.2.
> 

> 
> I think the binaries should execute cross-distros' if -
> * the arch platform is same.
> * the kernel versions are same (or very near each other.)
> So, I need to find out that SuSe distro, which has the same kernel 
> version as the one in RHL 7.3 (for example.)
> 

Also for dynamically linked programs, the shared library versions should 
match. A lot of programs are linked very tightly to the glibc version.

Use ldd to find the version of libraries needed to execute the program.

- Sandip


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