Building applications for the Linux Standard Base

C. Yeoh The goal of the Linuxe Standard Base (LSB) is to develop and promote a set of standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant Linux system. There are currently LSB specifications available for the Intel Architecture IA-32e processors and for the 32and 64-bit PowerPCe, Itaniume, 31and 64-bit zSeriese, and AMD64e architectures. This paper describes the process of building LSB-compliant applications, and covers the use of the LSB development environments, testing of binaries, and packaging.