On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:12, Alan Brown wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > > Ok, I have an FD for SuSE 9.2 which should also work on SLES9. > > Statically linking was not possible, after some playing around, I always > > ended up with: > > > I can not find static .a libraries for linux-gate (whatever that is) and > > libattr, so I assume these might be one reason for not having a static > > FD possible. > > The joy of static binaries is that they aren't library dependent, so they > can be compiled on any available distribution, etc and then copied into > the machine in question... :-) > > And that reminded me to look in /etc/bacula/rescue/linux/cdrom/bacula/bin/ > .... > > >> Right now I can imagine several people asking why I don't just update > > > > No need to explain that - I still have SuSE 8.1 running my Bacula server :-) > > It's always awkward when one can't upgrade, especially when the solution > becomes "upgrade your OS" >
What I don't understand is why you don't build your own current (non-static) version of Bacula on your older systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
