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* Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would  that even help?)
  @ 2009-10-30 15:26 99%   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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From: Volker Armin Hemmann @ 2009-10-30 15:26 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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.



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