Linux Development Platform Specification

• Interim specification until the release of LSB 1.0

• Portability guidelines

  • Aimed at application developers
  • No guarantees, just increases portability
  • Recommends versions of kernel, glibc, Xfree, ncurses, gcc, binutils to build against/use.
  • Warns of areas that will cause problems (eg pthreads, C++)

• 1.1 to be released in a couple of weeks

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