Re: glibc-compat
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Peter Cordes wrote:
> Is it possible to run stuff that is linked against glibc-2.0.7 (rh5.2 used
> that, so I imagine a lot of commercial stuff linked against that, or at
> least people have old commercial stuff linked against it and would rather
> not pay for a new version.)
>
> Can you LD_PRELOAD (an old) libc? (with a wrapper script to set LD_PRELOAD.)
>
> Is there a way to do it at all without using chroot or hacking ld.so for
> special cases? Obviously it is possible, but is it possible practically and
> usefully?
Hi all,
I'd like to know this as well! Yes, I know, the correct thing to do is to
ask politely the vendor to re-compile under glibc2.1, and I plan to do
that. But at the same time I'd like to know if there's a quick fix for
this.
I originated this whole thread in debian-user; the app that does not work
for me is the F compiler from Imagine1 (www.uni-comp.com/imagine1). It's
a free (as in beer) commercial compiler, which has been recently made
available in its full version. The errors appear in the linking stage, it
seems the run-time library (libf90.a) needs glibc2.0. People with
glibc2.1 under RedHat or Suse can run it successfully by installing
compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1.i386.rpm, and then using
-L/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib on the compile command line.
TIA,
Jose
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