[plug] GLIBC_2

[blockley at environ.wa.gov.au]

On 16 Dec, Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, russ wrote:
> 
>> The diappointing thing is that it runs on a machine with suse 6.2. I
>> was hoping it was a matter of missing a package.
> 
> I'm probably wrong about this, but from what I understand either SUSE 6.0
> was libc5 and SUSE 6.1 glibc2.0, or SUSE 6.0 was glibc2.0 and SUSE 6.2
> glibc2.1 and as a result rpms built for SUSE 6.2 (or the equivalent
> RedHat) will not work with SUSE 6.0
> 
> You will need to find an older RPM (ie one that is built for SUSE 6.0, or
> whatever the equivalent RedHat is, probably 5.x)
> 

Have you tried the source rpm (not the source tar ball) from SUSE?  You
should be able to rebuild a 5.x version from that - unless, of course,
the package requires glibc2.? to build. 

Cheers
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