Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:29:07 -0800 (PST)


> It's either this or they have to static link! This would turn it into
> real big bloat-ware, it is very large. 5.0's installation program
> is more complete, but you still have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and,
> if you want their library cached, fix up /etc/ld.so.config.

There is really no difference between the two choices, though!

And from what you're writing, I would say that failing to provide a
wrapper script to set up LD_LIBRARY_PATH is unacceptable (but
unfortunately far too typical for most commercial Unix packages; it
seems I always end up writing wrapper scripts to invoke them
correctly.)

Of course, the best thing would be for them to provide source. In
> that case, it's `xmkmf` ; make makefiles ; make ; make install
> and then you are done.

-hpa

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