[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17415 - simons - nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk-libs/2.16/glib

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Peter,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:

> Hi Ludovic,
>
>  > Out of curiosity, why does nbd-server want to link statically against
>  > Glib?
>
> nbd-server is supposed to run on a remote machine that does not
> necessarily use the same distribution, glibc version, etc as the client
> machine.

Thanks for explaining.  Can’t that remote machine have its own copy of
nbd-server, rather than copying the binary from a single machine?  AIUI
clients and servers could be running different OSes, on different
arches, etc.

Thanks,
Ludo’.