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bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root,
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Po Lu |
Subject: |
bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Mar 2024 09:19:23 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Rudi C <rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com> writes:
> My primary concern with your approach is that it requires numerous
> manual steps, each of which can introduce new points of failure.
> Would it be possible for you to provide a single script that I can run
> on Ubuntu (even on older versions with an outdated gcc, etc.) that
> will build Emacs under my home directory (~/)?
Emacs supports "older operating systems" with "outdated GCC" (back to
3.4.x) quite well, so I fail to see what the difficulty is with the
following two-liner:
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make -j `nproc` install
which has been standard among autoconf-using programs since time
immemorial, if not earlier.
> While I don't claim to have a deep understanding of these terms, my
> interpretation is that dynamic linking connects to the installed
> system libraries, making the binary heavily reliant on the specific
> conditions of its host operating system.
This is not true or important, when two lines and a set of basic
development packages available on any self-respecting GNU/Linux
distribution should provide through their package repositories.
> In contrast, a statically linked binary includes all of its
> dependencies within itself, allowing a single binary for Linux x86 to
> function on most other similar systems. A "portable" binary is one
> that can be downloaded using wget and executed without relying on any
> dependencies from the host operating system. Of course, no binary can
> be completely portable, and portability exists on a spectrum. However,
> some binaries are quite portable, such as those found at
> https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile.
Statically linking against libc.a is inherently unreliable, but programs
dynamically linking against one specific version of the GNU C library,
and more often than not, other C libraries, will function normally on
systems with subsequent releases of the same.
In any event, volunteers are welcome to provide such binary
distributions of Emacs, but, Emacs being a portable program without
numerous elusive dependencies or non-standard build systems, I very much
doubt the game will be worth the candle.
- bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible, Rudi C, 2024/03/29
- bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/03/29
- bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible, Rudi C, 2024/03/29
- bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/03/29
- bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible,
Po Lu <=
- bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible, Rudi C, 2024/03/30
- bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/03/30
- bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible, Rudi C, 2024/03/30
- bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible, Po Lu, 2024/03/30
- bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible, Eli Zaretskii, 2024/03/31
bug#70071: [FR] Provide official install scripts without requiring root, e.g., by making a static build possible, Michael Albinus, 2024/03/31