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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] How to make prefix using new glibc ?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:40:06
Message-Id: ad36eca76c334e61c1d89f8b63774f83@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] How to make prefix using new glibc ? by Galaxy
1 On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:08:52 +0800, Galaxy <galaxy001@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > I am doing on two servers with
3 > "2.6.9-55.0.2.ELsmp,/lib64/tls/libc-2.3.4.so" and
4 > "2.6.18-164.6.1.el5,/lib64/libc-2.5.so" that mount a same NFS disk.
5 > (In fact, they are 2 clusters with different linux on them and the
6 > administrators are not going to make those nodes same.)
7 >
8 > When I first encounter some errors that googled towarding to glibc, I
9 > found glibc is not in the portage gentoo-prefix,
10
11 Correct, Gentoo Prefix relies on the host's libc.
12
13 > so I thought it might be better to build the prefix under my own
14 > machine, which runs Gentoo.
15 > After I done this on my machine and rsync back to the same path on
16 > the server, I found everything linking on glibc cannot work since the
17 > libc there is too old.
18
19 You have to build the packages on the host that has the older glibc.
20
21 > So, How can I make a prefix that works on both these 2 servers?
22 > I think what I need is to make a glibc-2.11 with kernel 2.6.9-55, the
23 > lower one.
24 >
25 > Any note on prefix the glibc? Such as, what glibc depands on.
26 >
27 > And In fact I am not so sure which linux distributions are on those
28 > server, I just find there are 'rpm' but no 'apt-get' and no 'deb' .
29 > From other informations, it should be some CentOS. But I am not sure.
30
31 There should be an /etc/*release* file that contains such info.
32
33 -Jeremy

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