Delivering on multple Linux dists?

From: Steve Johnson (steve_at_parisgroup.net)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:31:45 -0700

Greetings,

I'm a seasoned Unix developer (Solaris mostly), but I'm new to commercial
Linux development. Can someone please help me to understand what's involved
in supporting multiple flavors of Linux with binary distributions. I need
to build binaries for each target because we cannot make our source
available. Here are the sort of questions I have...

If I want to support the most recent 2 versions of the top 6 Linux
distributions, how many different binary packages will I need to make
available?

What are the variables that determine compatibility between my build and a
particular Linux dist? Kernel version? libc/glibc version? Distribution?
What else?

To build for any particular target, do I necessarily have to build ON that
target, or is there some way to build for multiple targets from a single
build machine?

If somebody out there has done this sort of thing, building commercial
binary distributions for multiple Linux dists, and could give me some
pointers, I'd greatly appreciate it. If this information exists on the net
somewhere, a pointer to it would be super.

TIA for any help at all.

Steve Johnson
Equilibrium

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