From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3tKs-00063x-WB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:24:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F5EDE0A5E; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E0D0E0A5E for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9561CBDC71 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:16 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=pRxkaGvWWOpjWCrvhbIpZ0MfETg=; b=QJsOc+88pZ4X1S3d6gdv2EHcQe+XD+vYNpgK6w2XG3nqoOE2fBGfizBIq9bpd2gcSQbVLSHvFy+iJTIax2M9dXlr4XxKHuaqNStXcntuhLHgaN8Ay1a5r1i/vlKVpTuDmHYKKfjZFYn0+YUlOJFsVpUiBX9903oc+5pWzJtO5+w= X-Sasl-enc: OiIwkAUKIeQDMQnOrv0kevbHlrZLlHJT3BCdy/33VyhG 1256916256 Received: from [192.168.31.12] (cpe-069-134-183-088.nc.res.rr.com [69.134.183.88]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 47AA12A6C6 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?) From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:24:15 -0400 Message-ID: <1256916255.6037.5.camel@centar> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3304cebb-ca88-4a8f-9c45-0033e7e5d697 X-Archives-Hash: 69782506c9702e140433892ffb7154c8 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.