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diff --git a/standalone/linux/README b/standalone/linux/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..18983fd7a --- /dev/null +++ b/standalone/linux/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +You can put this directory into your PATH, and use git-annex the same +as if you'd installed it using a package manager. + +Or, you can use the runshell script in this directory to start a shell +that is configured to use git-annex and the other utilities included in +this bundle, including git, gpg, rsync, ssh, etc. + +This should work on any Linux system of the appropriate architecture. +More or less. There are no external dependencies, except for glibc. +Any recent-ish version of glibc should work (2.13 is ok; so is 2.11). + + +How it works: This directory tree contains a lot of libraries and programs +that git-annex needs. But it's not a chroot. Instead, runshell sets PATH +and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the stuff in here. + +The glibc libs are not included. Instead, it runs with the host system's +glibc. We trust that glibc's excellent backwards and forward compatability +is good enough to run binaries that were linked for a newer or older +version. Of course, this could fail. Particularly if the binaries try to +use some new glibc feature. But hopefully not. + +Why not bundle glibc too? I've not gotten it to work! The host system's +ld-linux.so will be used for sure, as that's hardcoded into the binaries. +When I tried including libraries from glibc in here, everything segfaulted. |