On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Salvador Aguinaga wrote:
Hello,
I have a app that requires glibc 2.7 and the version installed with SL5.4 is
2.5.
Can you not just rebuild the app against the installed glibc?
Should I download glibc 2.7 and install it from source or are there more
complicated dependencies that prevent me from doing this?
You don't want to replace the system libc, but if you really really need a
newer one for a particular app you can probably install a new glibc in a
different place and point the app at it by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
[slu...@slinux emav]$ ./emav
./emav: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by ./emav)
My system:
yum info glibc.i686
Installed Packages
Name : glibc
Arch : i686
Version : 2.5
Release : 42
Size : 12 M
Repo : installed
Summary : The GNU libc libraries.
uname -a
Linux slinux 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri May 7 01:52:57 EDT 2010 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
I'm running this on an atom intel board.
Thanks.
// Sal
// Northwestern University
-- Jon
