Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:47:24PM -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: Forget I ever said I wanted to replace glibc. Assume it’s a different library or application. Except libc is not just like any other library. Unless you're going to recompile the software, the location of the ld loader is

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com wrote: Tell your vendor you want a centos 6 version of the library, it's really not a huge ask, esp if you are paying them. If they say no, do a new install of centos 7 and run it on a different box. It's the only

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Jim Perrin
On 03/31/2015 11:12 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com wrote: Tell your vendor you want a centos 6 version of the library, it's really not a huge ask, esp if you are paying them. If they say no, do a new install of centos 7 and

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:21 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Perhaps, but I’m running CentOS 6.6 i686 (i.e., 32-bit), and it appears that Docker requires 64-bit. Oh well, I was getting my hopes up for a while. snip I haven't really been following this thread closely, but would it be a dumb

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com wrote: On Mar 31, 2015, at 12:21, Jim Perrin jper...@centos.org wrote: Isn't this the problem that docker was invented to solve? Yes, you could address this with docker quite easily, depending on the

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com wrote: On Mar 31, 2015, at 12:21, Jim Perrin jper...@centos.org wrote: Isn't this the problem that docker was invented to solve? Yes, you could address this with docker quite easily, depending on the app. Perhaps, but

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Mar 31, 2015, at 12:21, Jim Perrin jper...@centos.org wrote: Isn't this the problem that docker was invented to solve? Yes, you could address this with docker quite easily, depending on the app. Perhaps, but I’m running CentOS 6.6 i686 (i.e., 32-bit), and it appears that Docker requires

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-30 Thread James Pearson
Alfred von Campe wrote: We have a third party shared library from a vendor that requires glib 2.15 or newer. We are using CentOS 6.6 which comes with glibc 2.12, and I know it can’t be replaced as it’s an integral part of the OS. However, is it possible to build a glib 2.15 RPM from

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-30 Thread Patrick Flaherty
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com wrote: We have a third party shared library from a vendor that requires glib 2.15 or newer. We are using CentOS 6.6 which comes with glibc 2.12, and I know it can't be replaced as it's an integral part of the OS.

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-30 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Mar 30, 2015, at 17:24, Patrick Flaherty pflahe...@wsi.com wrote: Tell your vendor you want a centos 6 version of the library, it's really not a huge ask, esp if you are paying them. If they say no, do a new install of centos 7 and run it on a different box. It's the only reasonable

[CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-30 Thread Alfred von Campe
We have a third party shared library from a vendor that requires glib 2.15 or newer. We are using CentOS 6.6 which comes with glibc 2.12, and I know it can’t be replaced as it’s an integral part of the OS. However, is it possible to build a glib 2.15 RPM from source to be installed in