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Re: minimal sci-lnx & glibc v. 2.7
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Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:25:47 -0600
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Salvador Aguinaga
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> Hello,
>
> I have a app that requires glibc 2.7 and the version installed with SL5.4 is
> 2.5.
>
> Should I download glibc 2.7 and install it from source or are there more
> complicated dependencies that prevent me from doing this?
>
>
> [sluser@slinux emav]$ ./emav
> ./emav: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by ./emav)

Hmmmm if you can't rebuild the application to use 2.5 I would say you
need to look at using say Fedora 12/13 for the time being and
Scientific Linux 6 when it comes out.


> 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
>



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