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

[Duncan Smith]

2009/10/31 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>:
> 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
> libs  and run ldconfig before trying to run the app.  This does work
> sometimes, but success varies ...
>
> BillK

Interesting... I may give that a shot.  Should be able to crank out a
wrapper script to do that automatically.

It'd be prudent to have RHEL4 anyway, since that's what some of our
customers are running, but it's good to have another option.