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 1N3tOF-0006Q7-0q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:27:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18B82E0A7F; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE74E0A7F for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:26:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so97839fga.10 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:26:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=v7SEYubTAFEN57Bu9QWA1FUoGQnhDKjCJqomuHoLR80=; b=fVatsSVJ3ia9d9Zk9J/2x8awpGy4QoeU4NbM2MWaxtp56InAKHBgLTfXTHXC4hEybu pibdGI56srvMWbG1DdvurCKW9KASgIx3eFapRcjouJi2CABH1aszgSEfyMVefjUJjep8 U6WE1f6QwnHWjnknxqUeHMZkvgKngrIE0sYDE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=K8AjIsKg8fNJITVANBKvCXJPABzVjbaXvLZ8wzxJ9rgRfh7I6f9HAoclR9CnyGasZm E30mqTHuxR5l21lANzQinMfa67o2p+zbO1Blpf1iCgKoTkKQs8WZYGQ/0UP/gj4luloV ChRW3TWp+9qF9wP4PJXDu60kZvt5PXgSW5yfU= Received: by 10.86.138.40 with SMTP id l40mr1163217fgd.6.1256916418035; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e3sm38807fga.3.2009.10.30.08.26.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:26:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann 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 16:26:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31.3r4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <1256916255.6037.5.camel@centar> In-Reply-To: <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 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910301626.55983.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5e49f29b-7d3b-4f32-a42f-2860151c7b1b X-Archives-Hash: 564f90c9bc7ce2e0c368ae66a91b36ed On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > 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 ;) you can have multiple glibc's. Just not via portage. But yes, it is a mess. A mess that is most likely to explode violently. > > 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. > yeah, I would go down that route too.