[tex-live] TeXlive 6b/pdfTeX and Linux 2.0

[sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk]

Thomas Esser writes:
 >   - add -static to the flags you pass to g++ when linking the binary
 >     (bad, since this will affect all libraries, even libc)
yes, I dont want to do that!

 >   - install a gcc which does not use a shared libstdc++ (if gcc only finds
 >     a static libstdc++.a and no libstdc++*.so it will just use the
 >     static version) for producing the pdf*tex binaries you are going
 >     to redistribute
that sounds a fairly major undertaking to get working on all the
systems on which we might compile

sebastian