14 Mar
2014
14 Mar
'14
11:47 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Nate Coraor <nate@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
Hi Peter,
I just wanted to add my $0.02 USD to say that I mostly agree with this - I have long used binaries precompiled by the tool author on Main, especially for cases where, as you say, the compile-time dependency list is large and painful. The only "gotcha" here is to make sure that binaries support the oldest possible version of glibc that might be installed on any of the Linux distributions and versions that we support, and that no non-standard preinstalled libraries have been pulled in during the build process.
--nate
Good point about potential problems with glibc, and I guess any run time linked libraries which might be a different version or missing? Peter