On Friday 2010-02-05 20:53, Florian Westphal wrote: > >> Can't you decide on installation >> time of the Linux system which binary to provide? > >It should still work when the kernel is changed later. > >The 'easiest' solution would be to ship both 64 and 32bit binaries >and have some wrapper that picks the right one depending on kernel. Why ship two? There is a preferred userspace for each kernel architecture (that I have seen). If you try to install ebtables on a x86_64 distro, it generally offers you ebtables.x86_64. >But this has other issues (e.g. need for 64bit libc) or, >when using a statically linked binary, the drawback that you need to use >e.g. "6" instead of "tcp" due to missing libraries glibc wants to load >at run time. Anything that is dlopened is not strictly required for execution. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
