Hi everybody,

I have a question regarding relinking of object files.

I work on a multfile project. I have rewritten makefile, which produces object files from C/C++ files, and then links them (along with standard libraries) to create the final binary.
Now I take these object files to other Linux version. ( The original object files are created on Redhat 9.0) and the new linux version is Fedora Core 4. Now when I try to link them, I get lots of link error messages, and I am unable to produce the final binary.

My question is, 1) Do we need to use the same linux version again for relinking ?
2 ) If not, what am I doing wrong ?

Many Thanks
Villie

Like you, I would think that it should work without problems. But I can imagine that you need (almost) the same compiler version.

It's been a little while since RedHat 9, especially if you haven't upgraded your compiler / linker to a new version. Your best bet for moving code is in source format, complete with a tweakable Makefile.

This is the reason that binary distribution hasn't evolved nearly as much within the open source community as it has within, say, the Windows community. Sure we've got packages, but you need a different one for each distro and release version. And even then, sometimes you can kiss your package install goodbye because of library version conflicts. But that's a good thing, though; because source is always better than binary.