* 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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