[96023] in RedHat Linux List
Re: libc.so.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Fri Oct 23 05:54:02 1998
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:54:23 -0500
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On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\) sniveled:
>libc.so.4?! Am I mistaken or is that quite old (in computer terms...)?
>Anyway, you won't be able to get that program running with libc.so.6, that's
>for sure. There's been some major changes between libc5 and libc6 (aka
>glibc). What I'd suggest is this: Write a wrapper shell script which sets
>the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH so, that it points to libc5 (you
>should have libc.so.5 as well on a RHL system) first and then calls your
>program. That might not work, as I'm not sure whether libc5 is combatible
>with libc4. If it doesn't work, you'll need to search the net for a copy of
>libc4 and modiify the wrapper script to point there.
>It might also be necessary to use the environment variable LD_PRELOAD in
>your wrapper script. I've used that one only once, but I think you can use
>it to explicitly pre-load the libc of your choice - can somebody elde please
>fill in details here? (Might be in the documentation of "ld" (man ld)).
I just looked. The files for libc.so.4 are part of the aout libraries
which are still available in RH5.1 and presumably 5.0 and 4.2.
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