Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-20 Thread Mick
On Monday 18 Aug 2014 20:56:53 Timur Aydin wrote: Thanks a lot guys for the helpful responses. I will definitely try all of them, just for the learning experience, even if one does take care of the problem. Cheers! Also worth looking into is meld, if you are not running kde on your system.

[gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Timur Aydin
Hi, I am using a closed source software package on my 64 bit gentoo linux system. The software package is beyond compare by scooter soft. Because of the way this package is built, it needs a specially patched version of glibc. I have patched my existing glibc version (2.18) and have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Manuel McLure
One option is to copy the glibc version you want to some other directory and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before starting the executable. Running ldd on all the executables/shared libraries in question should give you a list of all the shared libraries you might need to copy to a safe place. On Mon, Aug

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/08/2014 19:06, Timur Aydin wrote: Hi, I am using a closed source software package on my 64 bit gentoo linux system. The software package is beyond compare by scooter soft. Because of the way this package is built, it needs a specially patched version of glibc. I have patched my existing

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 18 August 2014 20:06:51 CEST, Timur Aydin t...@taydin.org wrote: Hi, I am using a closed source software package on my 64 bit gentoo linux system. The software package is beyond compare by scooter soft. Because of the way this package is built, it needs a specially patched version of glibc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: In cases like that I would do either of the following: 1) Run it inside a VM 2) run it inside a chroot That way you can easily keep everything updated except for that application. Or better still run it inside a

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Timur Aydin
Thanks a lot guys for the helpful responses. I will definitely try all of them, just for the learning experience, even if one does take care of the problem. Cheers! -- Timur

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 18, 2014 03:12:15 PM Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: In cases like that I would do either of the following: 1) Run it inside a VM 2) run it inside a chroot That way you can easily keep everything updated