Re: [Monotone-devel] Ubuntu 6.06

[Thomas Moschny]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> A simpler solution than all this might be to just use one of the
> standalone binaries from the web site:
>   http://monotone.ca/downloads/0.36/mtn-0.36-linux-x86.bz2
>   http://monotone.ca/downloads/0.36/mtn-0.36-linux_2.6-static.bz2
> Just uncompress, rename to "mtn", make executable, and put somewhere
> in your path, and they should work.
>
> (Why do we have two of these now?  I can't tell which one I would
> need or what the real difference is; do we expect that users can?  It
> would be better to just provide whichever single binary works on the
> greatest variety of possible systems...)

Well, the first is linked statically to all libs but libc, and thus needs a 
glibc 2.4 at runtime, while the second is completely static, and only needs a 
system with a 2.6 kernel. 

So, in theory, the second would be the preferred binary, because it runs on a 
wider variety of possible systems. But for static binaries, NSS is limited, 
see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/FAQ.html#s-2.22.

Therefore, I'd suggest using the first binary, where possible :)

-- 
Thomas Moschny  <address@hidden>

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