From 3f0a7ffe0fff1d05e619f673070ef855ce8475b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2026 19:17:40 +0100 Subject: add faq entry about linux binary compatibility --- faq/linux_binary_compatibility.mdwn | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 faq/linux_binary_compatibility.mdwn diff --git a/faq/linux_binary_compatibility.mdwn b/faq/linux_binary_compatibility.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e459bcf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/faq/linux_binary_compatibility.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag faq/general]] + +[[!meta title="Could there be a compatibility with Linux binaries?"]] + +When you have free software, you can just recompile it and be done :) + +Adding such a compatibility layer would be quite a lot of work since we'd have +to check all the ABI details to make them match exactly. + +In the end, the required effort is really not clearly worth the benefit, when +you can just recompile the software. -- cgit v1.2.3