| Re: RedHat-6.0 with Glibc2.1 breaks IDL-5.2 [message #15236] |
Fri, 07 May 1999 00:00  |
lrnittler
Messages: 2
Registered: May 1999
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In article <373211F7.144C4F0E@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu>,
"J.D. Smith" <jdsmith@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu> wrote:
> Martin Schultz wrote:
>>
>> NewsMan wrote:
>>>
>>> The new RedHat-6.0 Linux with glibc-2.1 breaks IDL-5.2. I got the
>>> following error when I invoke IDL.
>>> [...]
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>>
>
> You can easily install an old glibc (RH 5.2 has 2.0.7), and set up your
> LD_PRELOAD environment variable just before running idl (perhaps in a
> shell which runs only idl and is used for no other purpose). This way
> you can continue using RH 6.0 using glibc-2.1, but IDL will work (and
> find this library function it needs to work). Such a script might look
> like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libc-2.0.7
> $IDL_DIR/bin/idl
>
> Good Luck,
OK, I also am having trouble getting IDL to work with redhat 6.0. I tried the
above approach after copying libc-2.0.7.so from /usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib/
(where the compat files are put) to /lib, but even with the 2.0.7 library I
get the same error message. Any ideas?
Larry
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