[Fedora-packaging] Re: paragraph on shipping static numerical libs

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 09:09 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:14:21PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > I call crap on that. I was a single systems person for a bunch of
> > systems for a long time. You keep your sanity by enforcing policy and
> > you can do that by using the tools available to you to simplify the
> > tasks. You don't need homogeneous hw, you need LARGELY homogeneous hw.
> > So you limit the processor archs and you try to focus things down as
> > much as possible.
> 
> It isn't necessarily enough. Do you consider a mix of centos4 and fedora
> to be homogeneous?
No ...

>  This is what I use and, mainly due to gfortran/g77
> differences, I have to statically build on fedora to run on centos4.
... and this is the proof.

Ralf