Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-11-02 Thread Duncan Smith
2009/10/31 William Kenworthy : > I was in a similar position some years ago - grab a copy of the needed > libs from somewhere and use "ldpreload" to load them into memory before > running the application.  Google will help. > > In some cases, you can symlink the needed lib names to existing later >

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-11-02 Thread Duncan Smith
2009/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann : > Virtualbox on the other hand is pretty much hassle free in my experience. > Can't talk about vmware - haven't used that in years ;) Thanks for the pointer to Virtualbox... I hadn't heard of it. Looks like the wiki has some help, though. http://en.gentoo-wiki.c

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-31 Thread William Kenworthy
I was in a similar position some years ago - grab a copy of the needed libs from somewhere and use "ldpreload" to load them into memory before running the application. Google will help. In some cases, you can symlink the needed lib names to existing later libs and run ldconfig before trying to r

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 14:52 -0700, Kyle Bader wrote: > I dunno how > flexible the vendor is but its worth asking :) They only support RHEL4. RHEL4 was released nearly 5 years ago and uses the 2.6.9 kernel. I think that shows how flexible they are. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 30 October 2009 23:52:10 Kyle Bader wrote: > Avoiding 1, 2, and 3 but thought I'd propose a 4 other than a virtual > machine. Ask the vendor if they can provide a statically compiled > version, that way you don't have to worry about libc. I dunno how > flexible the vendor is but its wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Kyle Bader
Avoiding 1, 2, and 3 but thought I'd propose a 4 other than a virtual machine. Ask the vendor if they can provide a statically compiled version, that way you don't have to worry about libc. I dunno how flexible the vendor is but its worth asking :) On 10/30/09, Duncan Smith wrote: > The company

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Duncan Smith wrote: > Thank you both for your quick response. > > I'll probably end up taking the virtual machine approach. I may also > try some sort of chroot solution... I'll see how much of a hassle > vmware is. chroot can work nicely, but you have to create a gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Duncan Smith
Thank you both for your quick response. I'll probably end up taking the virtual machine approach. I may also try some sort of chroot solution... I'll see how much of a hassle vmware is. 2009/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann : > On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > >> >  3. If it is glib

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > 3. If it is glibc, is there some way to install glibc slotted? Could > > I install an old version of glibc to some other lib folder (like > > /opt/lib64), and then use LD_LIBRARY_PATH somehow to get the tool to > > look there first? How? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:01 -0400, Duncan Smith wrote: > The company I work for is using gentoo on all its machines. We just > got a license to a commercial tool which does not support gentoo. The > closest thing it supports is RHEL v4. > > Running any command provided by the tool results in an

[gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009-10-30 Thread Duncan Smith
The company I work for is using gentoo on all its machines. We just got a license to a commercial tool which does not support gentoo. The closest thing it supports is RHEL v4. Running any command provided by the tool results in an explosive memory leak (virtual memory hits 400G in 1 second, and