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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would  that even help?)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1256916255.6037.5.camel@centar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6e18b8f0910300701q3cc16bdewc2d0fbd1d154acaa@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:01 -0400, Duncan Smith wrote:
> The company I work for is using gentoo on all its machines.  We just
> got a license to a commercial tool which does not support gentoo.  The
> closest thing it supports is RHEL v4.
> 
> Running any command provided by the tool results in an explosive
> memory leak (virtual memory hits 400G in 1 second, and continues to
> climb).
> 
> I suspect the problem is that RHEL v4 uses =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4,
> whereas we have =sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 installed.
> 
> I have three questions:
>  1. Am I posting to the right list?

You are just just as likely to get support from Gentoo about software we
have no access to as your distributer is to support Gentoo.
 
>  2. Any idea what's going on?  Could it be something other than glibc
> causing the problem?

It could be one of a hundred million things.  Without access to the
program it's really hard to tell.

>  3. If it is glibc, is there some way to install glibc slotted?  Could
> I install an old version of glibc to some other lib folder (like
> /opt/lib64), and then use LD_LIBRARY_PATH somehow to get the tool to
> look there first?  How? 

You can't have multiple versions of glibc.  And you can't downgrade
glibc.  Attempting to do so may result in having more than just that
program misbehaving ;)

My suggestion, for your sanity and support: if you insist on Gentoo then
at least run RHEL4 (or CentOS or whatever) inside a virtual machine and
run your app from there.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-30 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-30 14:01 [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?) Duncan Smith
2009-10-30 15:24 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2009-10-30 15:26   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-30 19:22     ` Duncan Smith
2009-10-30 19:37       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-11-02 18:45         ` Duncan Smith
2009-10-30 21:52 ` Kyle Bader
2009-10-30 21:58   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-30 23:27   ` Albert Hopkins
2009-10-31  9:20     ` William Kenworthy
2009-11-02 18:52       ` Duncan Smith

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