Pierre, many thanks for your help.
I think I might need a compat-glibc for the "n-2 distro" as linuxthreads
support was removed from Centos5; from the RHEL-4 release-notes:
"support for LinuxThreads still exists for RHEL 4, ...advance notice that Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will no longer include support for LinuxThreads. Thus
applications that require LinuxThreads support must be updated before they
will be able to work properly on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system."
In RHEL4 the solution was to one of the following:
1) Use LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable
or
2) Use an explicit rpath to /lib/i686/ or /lib/ to select LinuxThreads instead
of NPTL at runtime
I used solution #1 to get InsightII to run under Centos4.
Is there any (reasonable) chance of providing older (=Centos3) libraries under
Centos5 for one errant program?
Thanks again for your time
Jake
Pierre Bourgin wrote:
>Depends which older version you need; the compat-glibc package provides
>binary compatibility with the n-1 distro:
>Jake Grimmett wrote:
>> 1) Some of our software needs linuxthreads (i.e. InsightII) but it's closed
>> source and the writers (Accelrys) are unlikely to respin the code as they
>> want us to move to a different program.
--
Dr J. Grimmett
Computer Systems Manager
Division of Molecular Structure
National Institute for Medical Research
The Ridgeway
Mill Hill
London, NW7 1AA
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