Hello Matt,

[email protected] writes:

> redhat 7.3 was the first linux i used 8 years ago.   there a use for
> this or did you just want to see if it can work ?  

I am a normal user so I need to get used to any environment the
administrator gives. There happens to be a redhat 7.2 machine on which I
tried Prefix.

> i recall trying to get prefix on ps2 and that was about the same as
> redhat 7.2, upstream might not accept patches to get it to work.  you
> would just be old packages, the ps2 has another disadvantage of being
> whacky hardware.

Currently there are some problems on the old glibc version and kernel
version.

For example, I want to use user mode linux (uml) on it. The glibc-2.2
will not build 2.6.3x kernels. If I compiled the uml kernel elsewhere
and copy to the old machine, there would be "kernel version too low"
fetal error, which is because glibc on the building machine do not have
kernel 2.4 support.

I was wondering if there is a way to build a binary against lastest
glibc and still keep the compatability to run on 2.4 kernels.

Cheers!
-- 
XU Benda
Research Center for Neutrino Science
Tohoku University
JAPAN

http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda

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