[Starkit] linux distro choice

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

Joey Mukherjee wrote:

> We have had the same problem distributing our Linux apps forever.   
> The one distro that we found that was the "most universal" was Red  
> Hat v7.3.

Thanks for the pointer - good to know.

FWIW, I had to update an old SuSE 8.2 system setup today (thx  
Reinhard Max), so it was easiest for me to try that one out first.   
If anyone cares to try these out, they are at:
	http://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/newer/

Details:

$ ldd t*82
tclkit-su82:
         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4001b000)
         libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4001e000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400d6000)
         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x400f8000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40100000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
tclkit85-su82:
         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4001b000)
         libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x4001e000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400d6000)
         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x400f8000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40100000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
tclkitlite-su82:
         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4001b000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4001e000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40040000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
tclkitlite85-su82:
         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4001b000)
         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4001e000)
         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40040000)
         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/3.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr -- 
with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/ 
share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-languages=c,c+ 
+,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking --enable-libgcj --with-gxx- 
include-dir=/usr/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib -- 
enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit i486-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)

$ uname -a
Linux su82 2.4.20-4GB #1 Tue May 24 16:14:53 UTC 2005 i686 unknown  
unknown GNU/Linux

-jcw