On 15/05/2023 19:00, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 14 May 2023 at 23:37:34 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: >> People build things on Debian that are not Debian packages. People >> compile binaries on Debian, and expect them to work on any system that >> has sufficiently new libraries. > > *raises hand* > > Hello, I represent an example of those people. With my $work hat on, > I'm involved in maintaining a family of Debian derivatives (the Steam > Runtime) that is used to run Steam games on arbitrary distributions, > including but not limited to Debian. Some of these binaries are built > on a Debian derivative, but run on an arbitrary other distribution, > using a RPATH[1] to find their non-glibc dependencies.
As another much smaller example, which I hope is still relevant, I have taken binaries from Debian stable or oldstable armel and run them for diagnostic purposes on embedded boards which only have Busybox installed and for which I don't have a convenient build environment. Regards, Roger PS Apologies if I've followed up incorrectly - I read debian-devel through an NNTP gateway. - And I screwed up the reply so Simon and the bug got a different copy.
