Self-contained executable for any Linux x86_64 distribution

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Mar 3, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
>>>> in another thread i pointed out that this is a waste of energy and i
>>>> still think it is.
>> 
>> I still consider it an interesting experiment.

I consider this very interesting, too. I doubt this will ever become the
preferred way for us to ship Subsurface on Linux, though.

>> So far, the idiotic
>> idea of the glibc developers to have a human-editable configuration
>> file - /etc/nsswitch.conf - optionally contain arbitrary names
>> of shared object files that are then loaded is the only real obstacle.
> 
> there are many bad decisions, which work against this type of
> packaging, which you are attempting here.
> the most potable kernel / OS is wrapped in a way where software isn't
> portable from one distribution to another.

I think that's what I said earlier and what started this thread. I find it very
frustrating how fragmented and non-portable the Linux ecosystem has
become.

/D


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