Kyle> Right, which is why you should use static linking if you Kyle> want portable binaries. I don't think portable binaries is Kyle> a problem we ought to be trying to solve in the same Kyle> sentence as dynamic linking. "We" ain't the problem. If you'll recall, this thread restarted because Debian tries to pretend that Xaw3d's lies are truth. I don't see Linux vendors giving up the practice of dynamic linking; I don't see Linux user/admins giving up the practice of borrowing binaries built in distro X environment to use in a half-baked distro Y environment. Or building themselves in the half-baked Y environment. It wouldn't matter, really, except that "we" get the bug reports. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."