Re: libc rpm?

[Bart-Jan Vrielink <bartjan de-boulevard nl>]

On Fri, 8 May 1998, Brian Wood wrote:

> > >       I keep trying to install certain rpms and get a libc.so.6 failed
> > > dependency. I know I have libc installed, but it still can't seem to
> > > find it. Can anyone tell me what rpm I need to install to fix this?
> > >
> > Do you have a RedHat 5 system. If yes, then you have glibc2 which is a
> > newer version of libc. It is possible, but difficult to run the both
> > versions of (g)libc. I hope anybody here does know where to get the right
> > RPM for libc5, because I also need libc.so.6.
> 
> A better answer is to get RPMs that have been specifically compiled for
> RedHat 5.0 (ie: glibc2). Better yet is to get the source for the
> program(s) you want to run and compile it yourself.

Yes, but what if you have some binaries in libc5 format and are using a
glibc2 machine ?? There should be no problem combining libc5 (for
backwards compatibility) and glibc2. I just want the libc5-stuff to be in
a RPM, so I shouldn't have to use rpm -nodeps. (And to save some time, did
you ever tried to compile (g)libc on an UDB ??)

> ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/hurricane/alpha is a good source for RPMs
> that are compiled and made for RH 5.0 alpha systems.

If you read the Errata-file for RedHat 5.0 then you'll see a link to a RPM
(possibly) containing libc5 for RedHat 5.0 . Unfortunately that link is
broken :(

Tot ziens,

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