[Fedora-directory-users] RPM/SRPM issues and old RHEL

[Richard Megginson]

Oliver Hookins wrote:
> On Mon Oct 30, 2006 at 08:27:54 -0700, Richard Megginson wrote:
>   
>> Oliver Hookins wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun Oct 15, 2006 at 20:44:44 +1000, Oliver Hookins wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> OK well aside from this issue, has anyone got FDS running on RHEL 2.1?
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> I guess nobody has... well in any case I've downloaded the dsbuild 1.0.3
>>> tarball and attempted to do a build on RHEL ES 2.1. Not surprisingly, it
>>> fails. Can anyone shed some light on these error messages? I started the
>>> build with make BUILD_RPM=1 NOJAVA=1 SNMP_SOURCE=1
>>>  
>>>       
>> I'm not sure, but it looks like a glibc compatability issue.  You might 
>> have to install some sort of gcc or glibc compat package.  On the other 
>> hand, it may require a newer version of gcc/glibc than AS 2.1 has.
>>     
>
> Most of the errors suggest it is looking for GLIBC 2.0 and 2.1 procedures,
> while the system has GLIBC 2.2.4 installed. I installed the compat-glibc
> package which has 2.1 but including this in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH first causes
> make to bail out because it requires 2.2 and apparently it gives up at the
> first libc file it examines.
>   
Maybe there is a compat-make?
> If there is no way around this particular thing, perhaps your suggestion of
> using a later version of GLIBC will be the answer. Is there an easy way to
> signal dsbuild to statically link GLIBC or will it require editing a lot of
> files?
>   
I have no idea.  This is highly not-recommended to do.
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