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Apparently free/open Unices (Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD) have no binary compatibility.<br>I find this very surprising, crazy, disappointing, but apparently true.<br>We must distribute source to achieve the usual expected portability.<br> C source at that, to achieve the usual expected buildability.<br>Or maybe I'm confused.<br>The various commerical systems (Solaris, AIX, Irix, VMS, Windows, Darwin, HP-UX) do/did not have this problem.<br><br><br> - Jay<br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> To: dragisha@m3w.org<br>> Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 23:51:15 -0700<br>> From: mika@async.caltech.edu<br>> CC: m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] libXaw.so.6 again<br>> <br>> =?utf-8?Q?Dragi=C5=A1a_Duri=C4=87?= writes:<br>> ...<br>> >Another is to ln -s existing libXaw.so.7 to libXaw.so.6<br>> ...<br>> <br>> "Not guaranteed to work" but almost always does, right?<br></div> </div></body>
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