Linux Standard Base

[Erik Bågfors]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:59:43 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:08:57PM +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 
> > What's the plan för LSB support in ubuntu.  Warty has the following packages,
> >
> > ii  lsb            1.3-9ubuntu7   Linux Standard Base 1.3 core support package
> > ii  lsb-base       1.3-9ubuntu7   Linux Standard Base 1.3 initscript functions
> > ii  lsb-release    1.4-7.1ubuntu3 LSB release command
> >
> > yet lsb_release gives "N/A".
> 
> We are following the development of LSB, and have taken specific actions in
> order to comply with some versions of the specification, but as yet no
> specific effort has been made to test and certify Ubuntu with a particular
> version of LSB.

Ok, but you are aiming for 1.3 compability I assume?

> This would be something to discuss for the release after Hoary.
> 
> > I'm in the situation where we have binaries that needs to run on a
> > number of distributions and we have taken the oldest distribution we
> > have as a "compile" box just because it's always worked on all
> > distributions.  Compiling on a newer dist sometimes gives us code that
> > doesn't work on an older. Mostly due to libc.
> >
> > I was hoping that LSB would solve this for us, therefore, what's the
> > status of LSB plans for ubuntu?
> 
> LSB standardizes what you can expect to be available on the system, but I
> don't currently know of any tools which will compile programs for you in
> such a way that they only use LSB interfaces.  A book has been published on
> the subject, though:

linuxbase.org has tools for that. Such at "lsbcc" and "lsbc++" to use
instead of gcc and g++. They even have a chrooted environment you can
use to make sure you are not using anything outside of the LSB.  I've
used lsbcc and lsbc++ under ubuntu and no problems...

Regards,
Erik