• joshzcold@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      The gophers are https://podman.io/ which builds and runs containers. My guess is they are building the same application in multiple distros for their one application

      Like

      my-app-nix my-app-fedora my-app-alpine

      It’s a common practice so users can choose the distro they prefer when launching your container in their stack.

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        6 months ago

        In this case, it’s not my program, it’s an open-source project I’m trying to compile, and I actually can’t get the program to compile on any of these distros.
        I tried nix-shell at first, then I tried launching containers of Debian and Fedora, which have official build instructions, and yeah, nothing has truly worked so far.

        I do have a working setup on openSUSE, but it involves half-compiling it in nix-shell and then compiling the rest with whatever magical combination of openSUSE packages I have on there. This setup also happens to be on my old laptop…