Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

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.  Google will help. > > In some cases, you can symlink the needed lib names to existing later >

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann : > Virtualbox on the other hand is pretty much hassle free in my experience. > Can't talk about vmware - haven't used that in years ;) Thanks for the pointer to Virtualbox... I hadn't heard of it. Looks like the wiki has some help, though. http://en.gentoo-wiki.c

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

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: > >> >  3. If it is glib

[gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

The company I work for is using gentoo on all its machines. We just got a license to a commercial tool which does not support gentoo. The closest thing it supports is RHEL v4. Running any command provided by the tool results in an explosive memory leak (virtual memory hits 400G in 1 second, and