Thank you Jon & Stephen: The app that I downloaded is available as a binary because the source code is proprietary. I might be able to ask the owner to rebuild it for me using glibc v2.5
but if that's not doable, I'd like to attempt the suggestion at the bottom and see if I can run the the app by pointing (correct me if i'm wrong) the glibc (/lib/libc.so.6) to the older version. Thank you. // Salvador On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Jon Peatfield < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
