On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:

(2) the special hard-coded tag "centos5". (That's what everyone actually uses in practice, right?)

Is LSB a fantasy that never happened? I haven't followed it for years....

-CHB

Compare with osx, where there are actually a ton of different ABIs

I suppose so -- but monstrously fewer than Linux, and a very small set that are in common use. A really different problem. But yes, the consensus on what to support really helps.


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