Re: RedHat-6.0 with Glibc2.1 breaks IDL-5.2

[Jeremy Sanders <jss(at)ast.cam.ac.uk>]

lrnittler@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> 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?

We managed to get IDL to work by installing the compatability libraries. I
then modified the idl script (the one which runs the binary) at the end to
read:

app=$IDL_DIR/bin/bin.$OS$OSVER$ARCH/$APPLICATION

if [ -e /lib/ld-2.0.7.so ] ; then
 exec $app $* $APP_ARGS
else
 libdir=/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib

 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${libdir}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
 exec ${libdir}/ld-2.0.7.so $app $* $APP_ARGS
fi

This seems to work, although we haven't tried running programs with external
shared libraries.

Jeremy Sanders

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