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 1N3x3S-0000V4-2Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:22:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E77F7E0968; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8F9E0968 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so189473fga.10 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:22:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OgHQ4pFP9ccOx5aedtJ3hA2AReyo+Ex1kGiJHlExTXE=; b=UbYRRimrY5ItM7lbundtoSmXSQXTnVBdacCmC0HXAKJEufzdCUOYG+ohEezmjiAJuC kT8Kqdrioj9jX+7HTKINvJi+88+B17ZVPbURamMgAFxXPibwTZRAztHJ/6UKiWnLEOec 4THXxphgTjIYh9DT83STMb1Sd58VJozc9bBUU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Eil08izf4Q27PBE+y79os3qBsGKWBUfHfrSfR+TnMPItIUZDVAmGmPNInLXKc7Wzie ef/+Mq53Jg/yM0O5ytM6E0mgtXukhuhnL9RFJUrOJvYDt/vwtkdah93WCqi7ganAfFGR jZKyk7wjOwTnYQl17OvWgulUO/WnQ8qrvPI2c= 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 10.86.114.29 with SMTP id m29mr581386fgc.7.1256930552132; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:22:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910301626.55983.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> References: <1256916255.6037.5.camel@centar> <200910301626.55983.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:22:32 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 85bc5f6b-4d65-4edc-baa9-f12484220d40 X-Archives-Hash: a2924d7149e5d83f730761e03a4974a2 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 : > On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > >> > =A03. If it is glibc, is there some way to install glibc slotted? =A0C= ould >> > 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? =A0How? >> >> You can't have multiple versions of glibc. =A0And you can't downgrade >> glibc. =A0Attempting 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. > >