On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > 3. If it is glibc, is there some way to install glibc slotted? Could > > I install an old version of glibc to some other lib folder (like > > /opt/lib64), and then use LD_LIBRARY_PATH somehow to get the tool to > > look there first? How? > > You can't have multiple versions of glibc. And you can't downgrade > glibc. Attempting to do so may result in having more than just that > program misbehaving ;)
you can have multiple glibc's. Just not via portage. But yes, it is a mess. A mess that is most likely to explode violently. > > My suggestion, for your sanity and support: if you insist on Gentoo then > at least run RHEL4 (or CentOS or whatever) inside a virtual machine and > run your app from there. > yeah, I would go down that route too.
