Re: Linking for glibc-2.1.x Systems on a glibc-2.2.x

[Martin Hollmichel <Martin dot Hollmichel at germany dot sun dot com>]

Hi,

I think this is a great idea, but have one handicap: it's a jail and 
network access (especially to volumes where we need high UIDs) is 
difficult.

Martin

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On 2/23/01, 9:10:21 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> wrote regarding Re: 
Linking for glibc-2.1.x Systems on a glibc-2.2.x:


> Martin Hollmichel <Martin.Hollmichel@germany.sun.com> writes:

> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm working for a big company and so I have to use an user id > 64k. With
> > joy I took a new Linux distribution (Kernel 2.4 and glibc-2.2.1) and 
tried
> > to do my job: compiling and linking a popular application 
(openoffice.org).
> > I tried to do this with "old" glibc-2.1.x header files and libraries.
> >
> > The first time I tried this, I have overseen in the specs file of the
> > compiler (2.95.2) that /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is used and so I got
> > _dl_init_next() as an undefined symbol.
> >
> > So I changed the specs to use the ld-linux.so.2 which points to the
> > ld-2.1.so, the application links but aborts in the very beginning of the
> > app on a glibc-2.1.x system, and on glibc-2.2.x system I got with ldd
> > <my-app> : no such file or directory.
> >
> > Is there any chance to use a glibc-2.2.x as production system for
> > applications that  should also run on glibc-2.1.x systems?

> As I've mentioned on the newsgroup already: Use a chroot environment,

> Andreas
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