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 1N3s3E-0001bM-RF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:02:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C14FEE081F; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.159]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87612E081F for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so2628967fgg.10 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:01:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=e21CRSDM61xsOAZe9qVyJjSaEPddiMjU2f7DmH0peC8=; b=MRMt1fDEi0/yvlZCzbUXxyBNQ1Vr9tEsqT8IV8abgVsmePNS+YwVTJGRvtzVIOeP2K bDW+dSho+yamdTPXw4MVdQvTAC1uqEFRkBijcsixZwACTXsV0KlpkLrFEkNZSAwKlOaZ amv9FznZ3n2ae4qcDTFrR0Hnl0m7+ccBRTBxI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=TQQ7cSyrvH9YGZEqerO0/P4bDHhl6mOCVedlIEbxTmiWZP0i+K/Y/vtwp9vA0qwo6U 5xLOI2NxPoAv7BzJN1FsX8bUVCweJasxyGWqi1CbprjpviYV4TfiAA0lD+nlWFRq0uDb RUjJDxaHNpe0mD/kbrmKU1vs6nQPWDHahiGCQ= 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 Received: by 10.86.254.23 with SMTP id b23mr1096187fgi.21.1256911316781; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:01:56 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?) From: Duncan Smith To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 49eeec8a-f328-43be-94e6-45357490cc4e X-Archives-Hash: 9db2acf78c951dca71a092f1ca634cd5 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)