On Tuesday 09 January 2007 16:16, Lamar Owen wrote:
> FWIW, I have a few canned binaries in use at one site that require two
> really archaic libs. One is (wait for it) libc5-based. Yes, libc-5.3.12,
> last libc5 on RH. Latest libc5 compat was distributed with RHL6.2. The
> other is linked against glibc 2.0; it is multithreaded and does not work
> with glibc 2.2 (we have tried; it doesn't work) but it will work with glibc
> 2.1.
If what I remember from the portion of my CS degree that dealt with linkers
and loaders, it should be feasible to take a dynamic executable on the system
it works on and construct a static binary by pulling it apart and rebuilding
it as static (essentially reverse engineering what ld did, and re-running ld
with flags to create it as static).
I'm in no way recommending this manual process, as all I remember from this
small portion of my life is the agonizing dullness of the material, but there
very well may be a tool out there that can do this for you...
--
- Kevan Benson
- A-1 Networks
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