[SDL] Installation of binary apps on linux

[Gerry JJ]

On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:48:50 +0100, Ryan C. Gordon <icculus at icculus.org>  
wrote:
>> (loki installer + makeself?)
>
> That's what I use. You'll probably have to do some tapdancing to make
> sure you build with a glibc that works right everywhere, and link with
> only what you need, etc. You might do well to just extract Google
> Earth's installer and reuse the binaries from it...a LOT of time was
> spent customizing and automating the build of those binaries, including
> a gtk+2 installer that falls back to a statically linked gtk1 installer
> if there are dependency issues.

Is there any info about this somewhere ?  Just grabbing the Google Earth
installer and using that is an option, as you say, but that installer puts
the installed info under ~/.loki.  I'd like to use this, but I need that
info elsewhere.

> I'm currently using a dedicated build box with Ubuntu 5.10/x86 to keep
> glibc dependencies sane. Before that, I was building on Red Hat 6.0 (!),
> but the NPTL issues finally forced me to something more modern. You're

I'm using Gentoo in a chroot with a hacked gcc compiler setting for more
compatible builds, which is very convenient and works perfectly for me.
Stay away from Gentoo's crossdev, though.  (It mostly doesn't work, even
when it appears to.)

~ Gerry