| Title | MPS treats all Linuxes the same. |
| Status | suspended |
| Priority | optional |
| Assigned user | David Jones |
| Organization | Ravenbrook |
| Description | When building the MPS we treat all Linuxes the same. But is not at all clear that Debian Linux is "the same as" Red Hat Linux. There are several aspects: 1) Source code compatibility. Most differences would be detected at compile time. 2) Protocol incompatibility. The most common of which would be something like different return codes for the same syscall. 3) Binary incompatibility. I mean that a library built on one Linux might simply be the wrong format for some other Linux. The issue here being that on an NFS mounted build environment we would want separate directories for the different Linuxes. I think this needs investigation more than anything. For starters I don't even know if the above are genuine problems or not. There are similar issues with (for example) assuming all version of Mac OS X are the same or that all version of Solaris or OSF/1 (er Tru64) are the same. |
| Analysis | Needed. |
| How found | unknown |
| Observed in | 1.104.0 |
| Created by | David Jones |
| Created on | 2004-12-10 14:03:51 |
| Last modified by | Gareth Rees |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-19 12:05:43 |
| History | 2004-12-10 DRJ Created. 2013-03-19 GDR Suspended. (Can reopen if we find evidence that this is a problem.) |