"Angelo Leto" <angleto@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm working on applications which are data critical, so when I change > a library on the system there is the risk that results may be > different, so I create a repository with the critical libraries, and I > upgrade the libraries on repository only when it is needed and > independently from the system libraries (I do this in order to upgrade > the productivity tools and their related libraries without interacting > with the libraries linked by my application). Obviously when I change > the compiler I obtain different results on my applications, so my idea > is to create a "development package" which includes my critical > libraries and also the compiler in order to obtain the same result > (always using the same optimizations flags) on my application also > when I'm compiling on different Linux installations. > I guess that the same gcc static binary (e.g. compiled for generic > i386 architecture) should give me the same output on different linux > environments running on i386 machines. Is there any reason for which > this might not be true? I recommend building a chroot environment. Ian
