Do any of you develop software that must run on multiple linux distros? I'm trying to work with a company that distributes a simulator that runs on linux. Unfortunately, they have decided that their corporate standard distro is going to be arch. This is causing them no end of trouble internally, because they don't seem to be able to get a standard desktop everywhere (it's too easy to upgrade packages and not very pleasant to downgrade them, apparently). This may be a problem with source distros, or it may be incompetence; I don't know, and that's not really my problem. MY problem is that they keep squirting out software builds that are extremely difficult to run. I have a mix of Mandrake and Fedora boxes to run this stuff on, and everytime I get a new build, it's a mess. They use wxWidgets' libwx_base, which seems to have a bunch of incompatible versions with the same version number (!). But that's manageable; I just copy around a particular version, and I'm fine. But they also use libstdc++, and that's a total nightmare, since it seems to rely on other libraries. Bringing along a libstdc++.so just causes the load of that library to fail. I've been trying to get these guys to just statically compile the dang thing, but they don't seem to want to. Is there anything we can do short of that to manage these problems with the libraries? If things are this bad, how does ANYONE manage to distribute linux programs in binary? [I know, it would be great if they would distribute source, but they won't...] Just avoid libstdc++? Thanks! R _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list