Re: PSPP-BUG: Re: AW: Questions on PSPP: thank you

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> It's not necessary to have the dependent libraries on the build
> machine, since of course the binary will not be run there.  You do
> need the header files for these libraries, but in most (all?) cases,
> the headers for the native version will be identical to that of the
> host version.

Hmm, interesting point.

This wouldn't work with ELF shared libraries on modern GNU/Linux,
of course, since the required symbol versioning information must
be taken from the shared library binary.

(And it's nice to be able to test the Windows binaries under
Wine.)
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org