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 <volkerar...@googlemail.com>: > 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. > >
