Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Friday 30 October 2009 23:52:10 Kyle Bader wrote:
> Avoiding 1, 2, and 3 but thought I'd propose a 4 other than a virtual
> machine.  Ask the vendor if they can provide a statically compiled
> version, that way you don't have to worry about libc.  I dunno how
> flexible the vendor is but its worth asking :)


If it's a somewhat critical machine for business, just drop a new stand-alone 
box running RHEL4. Critical machines usually generate|save more cash than the 
cost of the box they run on








> On 10/30/09, Duncan Smith <duncanphilipnorman@gmail.com> 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?
> >  2. Any idea what's going on?  Could it be something other than glibc
> > causing the problem?
> >  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?
> >
> > Thanks for any help or ideas.
> >
> > Duncan
> >
> > P.S. In case it's useful, here is the output of ldd:
> >         linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff9e3ff000)
> >         libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x00007f49c871b000)
> >         libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f49c8503000)
> >         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f49c827e000)
> >         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f49c807a000)
> >         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f49c7d07000)
> >         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f49c897a000)
> 

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