[SDL] Installation of binary apps on linux

[Gerry JJ]

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:48:11 +0100, Colin Tuckley <colin at tuckley.org>  
wrote:
> Remember that Linux (and SDL) run on hardware other than x86, so a single
> binary is never going to work.

Who said anything about a single binary ?  If the installer is standard,
or rather, a standard *interface* already installed in the distro, the
package doesn't have to include any executable code for that part.  For the
app/game, it could include executables for all supported architectures, and
the installer could choose between them at install time (ala what Loki
Setup does).

Getting it to be standard will be a problem, though.

~ Gerry