On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 11:24:24 AM Les Mikesell wrote: >> If, in fact, you cannot rebuild a src rpm and get a working >> copy then in that respect you might as well be using closed, >> proprietary software. > > "Working" and "binary compatible" are two different things, and typically the 100% binary compatibility is most important for precompiled things and for closed source things. But we are talking about working here. > In the SOgo case, a recompile on the target box fixed the issue and resulted in a 'working' binary. But it very possibly would not be 100% compatible with the same exact binary built from the same source code on a slightly different base. Try the other way around: build RHEL from their src rpms, try to run the 3rd party binary... I thought you said that didn't work. If you can't rebuild that source so it works, you might as well not use open source. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com