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 1N520a-0000Uh-Kt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:52:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DD2BE09FF; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:52:03 +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 E4825E09FF for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so1201330fga.10 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:52:02 -0800 (PST) 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=WJ7D/R+6GLXIp0CqBP/UuyNNLkTTf2Um2HVHR1xta+8=; b=tA32AFK4Z4tqHU1HFpVgV3UvmAQm2yQlVmIUtSLB+4mXz9pcViPLUYRPxSOw86KsWo s3X1kPut9z+g65Pus6JglR8Aw0vlmn+xddWH+uSWEtTjFgR0B/xdED/k27HzOUZNmJBj n7+AmkaJInfN44m/urgQphhEGs5to0iXzwwVw= 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=R+5VKYbsfbZOwL4PNK2s5Sjgv8VW03zaNb4VfZQxr9ReU0kVEbICJADZo0qAuYh4QU 99lhyVUDFfDHd0PUDDKCPd3RZyXWccPgn9Zrm6ElZkCvzrCOHa45t4oMhLxNQXc3Otrf AoEZy8rDPQ0hob9PLtJhFkZr20BNKpmO31Yog= 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 10.86.119.39 with SMTP id r39mr2427443fgc.50.1257187921909; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:52:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1256980808.12901.8.camel@rattus> References: <854dca5c0910301452r78c1762dvbbd4748f7c602805@mail.gmail.com> <1256945229.12138.4.camel@centar> <1256980808.12901.8.camel@rattus> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:52:01 -0500 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: 1b89419d-4c8e-420a-8c51-fd4fe9891332 X-Archives-Hash: dcf86f4abbf7bbf2a450982212687877 2009/10/31 William Kenworthy : > 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. =A0Google will help. > > In some cases, you can symlink the needed lib names to existing later > libs =A0and run ldconfig before trying to run the app. =A0This 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.