Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 8th Aug 2008 03:58 UTC
"The Linux Foundation has just released a beta of a new program, Linux Application Checker (AppChecker), that's going to make independent software vendors and other programmers start to love developing for Linux." This program checks your application against different versions of the Linux Standard Base (LSB), and against all the Linux distributions in the LSB Database. After the test is done it will present a report about the compatibility status of your application with the various distributions, and which external libraries and interfaces your application uses.
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2006-01-16
The LSB still has convoluted view on things.
1. They want you to use a different loader? One which isn't present on most distroes by default (e.g: requires the lsb package) AND is achievable only by using their version of the compiler? What about other compiled languages then, like D or Pascal?
2. They don't support static/smart linked binaries. Those are the best way to get proper compatibility across distributions and they completely ignore them.
The only good thing on this app checker is that it tells you which libs you use are present in which of the major distributions.