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Thank you both for your quick response. |
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I'll probably end up taking the virtual machine approach. I may also |
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try some sort of chroot solution... I'll see how much of a hassle |
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vmware is. |
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2009/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>: |
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> On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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>> > 3. If it is glibc, is there some way to install glibc slotted? Could |
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>> > I install an old version of glibc to some other lib folder (like |
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>> > /opt/lib64), and then use LD_LIBRARY_PATH somehow to get the tool to |
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>> > look there first? How? |
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>> You can't have multiple versions of glibc. And you can't downgrade |
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>> glibc. Attempting to do so may result in having more than just that |
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>> program misbehaving ;) |
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> you can have multiple glibc's. Just not via portage. |
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> But yes, it is a mess. A mess that is most likely to explode violently. |
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>> My suggestion, for your sanity and support: if you insist on Gentoo then |
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>> at least run RHEL4 (or CentOS or whatever) inside a virtual machine and |
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>> run your app from there. |
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> yeah, I would go down that route too. |
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