On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:57:57PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
It was only half-a-joke. If the Fedora solution to backwards binary
compatibility is "recompile locally every application", then Gentoo is
much better at that kind of job.
Care to explain from what you gathered "recompile locally every
application"? All I (and others) said is that "linking statically
is almost always a bad idea and not the right answer for binary
compatibility", that's very different from "recompile locally
everything".
Compile/link against the oldest libs/with oldest toolchain you want to
support is nothing specific to Fedora, that's simply how e.g. symbol
versioning was designed to work.
Jakub