[Planetlab-users] Unix machines

[Timothy Roscoe (Mothy)]

I think another option is to build statically linked binaries.  Stripped 
they're not very large, and most (though not all) of the compatibility 
problems between PlanetLab and RH (or Debian, etc.) are to do with 
different versions of shared libraries (I think the Windows people call 
this "DLL Hell").

One of the problems that might remain even with static linking is to do 
with how the kernel deals with per-thread state in libc, but I don't 
think this has been an issue for a while now.

 -- Mothy

Robert P Ricci wrote:
> As far as I know, none of the PlanetLab nodes run FC6.
>
> PlanetLab provides software and instructions for creating a development
> box ('devbox') of your own - installing the same software that's on the
> PlanetLab node, plus a compiler and other development tools. You could
> compile your binaries on a devbox, rather than your university machines.
> The instructions are here:
> https://wiki.planet-lab.org/twiki/bin/view/Planetlab/DevBox
> ... though the site seems to be down right now.
>
> If you can't get another machine (or virtual machine) to turn into a
> devbox, Emulab provides a 'devbox on demand' service, which will give
> you access to a devbox whenever you need one. See this page:
> https://www.emulab.net/kb-show.php3?xref_tag=PLAB-DEVBOX
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Thus spake Rafit Izhak-Ratzin on Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:04:55AM -0700:
>   
>> I have access/am working on  university machines and can access only 
>> CentOS 5.0 machines, which is the same as RedHat Enterprise 5.0 which in 
>> turn is roughly equivalent the FC6. The problem is that the planet lab 
>> machines run FC4.
>>
>> Therefore since F4 is older I can't run binaries that compiled on the 
>> newer OS.
>>
>> Any idea how I can solve it. (Maybe there are some machines that run FC6)
>>     
>
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