Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Too, Justin A.
(I appreciate everyone's feedback.) On 9/20/12 4:12 PM, "Baurzhan Ismagulov" wrote: >On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:03:11PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: >> There's a lot of naysaying going on here, but don't assume that a single >> properly built binary can't be made to run on a large number of systems >

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Baurzhan Ismagulov
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:03:11PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > There's a lot of naysaying going on here, but don't assume that a single > properly built binary can't be made to run on a large number of systems > until you've looked into it carefully. All you have to do is target the > lowest common

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Linux is not a platform that easily accomodates installable binary blobs. While you provided lots of good advice, in my experience it is possible to provide binaries which do run on most x86 GNU/Linux systems. Typically such binaries are built on

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Dan Kegel
Justin, There's a lot of naysaying going on here, but don't assume that a single properly built binary can't be made to run on a large number of systems until you've looked into it carefully. All you have to do is target the lowest common denominator, and statically link anything that isn't compat

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Too, Justin A. writes: Hi Baurzhan, On 9/20/12 10:52 AM, "Baurzhan Ismagulov" wrote: >On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Too, Justin A. wrote: >> I would like to build and distribute a pre-built binary package for my >> project > >For which OS / distribution? For example: Linux (rhel5

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2012-09-20 10:56 -0700, Too, Justin A. wrote: > On 9/20/12 10:52 AM, "Baurzhan Ismagulov" wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Too, Justin A. wrote: > >> I would like to build and distribute a pre-built binary package for my > >> project [...] > >> that can be dropped into any "i

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Dan Kegel
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Too, Justin A. wrote: > The goal, however, is to simply distribute a single executable that is > linked with 1) the project's core shared library, and 2) Boost. Can you simplify it further? e.g. why have a core shared library, can you have a core static library

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Too, Justin A.
Hi Dan, Unfortunately, at the moment the project is not very simple. The goal, however, is to simply distribute a single executable that is linked with 1) the project's core shared library, and 2) Boost. Also, I'm not trying to distribute a one-size-fits-all distribution. If I can just create a

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/20/2012 11:56 AM, Too, Justin A. wrote: > Hi Baurzhan, > > On 9/20/12 10:52 AM, "Baurzhan Ismagulov" wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Too, Justin A. wrote: >>> I would like to build and distribute a pre-built binary package for my >>> project >> >> For which OS / distr

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 20/09/2012 10:56, Too, Justin A. wrote: > It should work wherever the user chooses to unpack the downloaded binary > distribution. That is, it doesn't have to be dropped into "/usr/local", > for example. I'd say google for "binreloc" but this reminds me a bit too much of autoinstall... and I d

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Too, Justin A.
Hi Baurzhan, On 9/20/12 10:52 AM, "Baurzhan Ismagulov" wrote: >On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Too, Justin A. wrote: >> I would like to build and distribute a pre-built binary package for my >> project > >For which OS / distribution? For example: Linux (rhel5/6) and Ubuntu. > > >> th

Re: Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Baurzhan Ismagulov
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Too, Justin A. wrote: > I would like to build and distribute a pre-built binary package for my > project For which OS / distribution? > that can be dropped into any "installation" location. What do you mean by "installation location"? With kind regard

Pre-built binary package

2012-09-20 Thread Too, Justin A.
Hello! I would like to build and distribute a pre-built binary package for my project that can be dropped into any "installation" location. I have no experience with this, so I would appreciate some initial guidance or pointers to documentation. Thanks, Justin =)

Re: Static library naming

2012-09-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Adding the Automake-NG list in CC: (see below for the motivation). On 09/20/2012 12:49 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: > Hi! > Hi Peter. > When you write > > lib_LIBRARIES = libhello.a > > you express the desire to build an "hello" archive. Virtually > everywhere such an archive is expected to be named,