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 1N3zVO-0003Gz-76 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:59:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 666F5E08D3; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:59:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B22E08D3 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:59:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so3289018ewy.14 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:59:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.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=JL9HaCGvu+V7HigVaUPNujoq3dEPTIBZ7X+nH1f+cLU=; b=ETOG0c/41rJS1A+riTIMgDdT8hvaruHlJyGRi8MQG6+HLwypOBi92m8g82dLbrXlM7 wueaDW4IHXHMvxeN6J1lvY5vpRcGuGapdyBn0RdtqrIhHwHSM/bDnkxj+GKn/P009bo2 t5oyELSgdp7pbnXK4kxH2BJjusSQe8DWHd7TM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=bRYnEtTcj+HGRzFPChp18MFqrPbDRAKvkVMJeO0Ou2cl9K9Av59dHkppuPjWn8TBPT f4PA8D8vuKZL4G1Yup+BCwM/6qUesyUtOW+EvyzomlX+ez9RbeYVRyK9vR+vhLWDj+R5 tBPbpjoWJCeoVUKYEcjh0VQjGZ+0eGxoECmhc= Received: by 10.216.87.12 with SMTP id x12mr798813wee.48.1256939971459; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:59:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-40-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm9655843eyg.46.2009.10.30.14.59.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:59:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon 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 23:58:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-zen5; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <854dca5c0910301452r78c1762dvbbd4748f7c602805@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <854dca5c0910301452r78c1762dvbbd4748f7c602805@mail.gmail.com> 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: <200910302358.25321.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 95b48478-f4d6-4fd6-9747-17f30207b87d X-Archives-Hash: e12e332724adf7fa1cd94de549d49cf5 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 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) > -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com