Peter Kirby wrote:
There is a 'hack' you can do which worked fine for me on the dedicated box I run which is still on glib 2.2.x....
Simply I downloaded the gentoo stage3 tarball.. Untarred into a folder (/root/gentoo for me). Made a folder /root/gentoo/home/steam and copied the contents of my existing steam folder over. did a mount -t proc none /root/gentoo/proc then chrooted in.. env-update and a source /etc/profile to get my gentoo environment.. Then I emerged vim (cause I like vim) created the steam user in the chroot environment, changed ownership of the steam folder and it's contents.. su - steam and run srcds_run happy as can be :).
Overkill mainly.. But when you're done the whole lot can just be removed with no harm done.. So it a good temp workaround if you don't want to re-install just yet. (dedicated box - no I don't want to just yet ;))
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The biggest problem you might have would be security issues. Those are pretty small in your case anyways. I'll go as far as comparing glibc 2.2 to Win 9x. Many people have moved ahead and even RH 8 is using glibc 2.3 after running up2date. We are running Gentoo without any issues for any games. I just personally think it's time to go ahead and update the systems and not pester companies such as Valve by forcing them to statically compiling binaries because some people are still running Debian Woody/FreeBSD. I followed many threads about a FreeBSD and if Valve really wants to they can release a FreeBSD version. There is no point in whining that it doesn't work on FreeBSD if it is a linux based server. It is more up to the FreeBSD maintainers to create a linux compatibility layer based around glibc 2.3.
Philip
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