From: Duncan Smith <duncanphilipnorman@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:52:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6e18b8f0911021052n27e5f5c0wb6ea596b0c418176@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256980808.12901.8.camel@rattus>
2009/10/31 William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>:
> I was in a similar position some years ago - grab a copy of the needed
> libs from somewhere and use "ldpreload" to load them into memory before
> running the application. Google will help.
>
> In some cases, you can symlink the needed lib names to existing later
> libs and run ldconfig before trying to run the app. This does work
> sometimes, but success varies ...
>
> BillK
Interesting... I may give that a shot. Should be able to crank out a
wrapper script to do that automatically.
It'd be prudent to have RHEL4 anyway, since that's what some of our
customers are running, but it's good to have another option.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-02 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-30 14:01 [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?) Duncan Smith
2009-10-30 15:24 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-10-30 15:26 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-10-30 19:22 ` Duncan Smith
2009-10-30 19:37 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-11-02 18:45 ` Duncan Smith
2009-10-30 21:52 ` Kyle Bader
2009-10-30 21:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-30 23:27 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-10-31 9:20 ` William Kenworthy
2009-11-02 18:52 ` Duncan Smith [this message]
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