On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:04:09 -0600 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why not just give up on any Linux install being compatible with any > other and compile everything statically instead We tried that, and redhat has managed to produce a libc in which it is actually impossible to statically link a working program. All sorts of routines (pam related things like getpwuid for one example) drag in libraries dynamically, and when they do that in a static program, you then find you've managed to load two conflicting copies of malloc (or something equally destructive). Anyway, If I wanted to recompile everything to get it working, I'd just switch to gentoo, I was merely brainstorming the idea of a linux where you could run any program from any distro :-).
