> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:33:29 +1100 > From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: glibc-compat ??? > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > > Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros > > have? > > They're both libc 6.0 -- how would ld.so know which one you wanted? > Any apps which run on 6.0 and not 6.1 are broken and should be fixed.
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? -- #define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; http://is2.dal.ca/~dups/ Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , dal.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
