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

[Duncan Smith <duncanphilipnorman@gmail.com>]

Thank you both for your quick response.

I'll probably end up taking the virtual machine approach.  I may also
try some sort of chroot solution... I'll see how much of a hassle
vmware is.

2009/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>:
> 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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