[Scribus] OT: different libc:s

[Peter Linnell]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 23:59, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >> I'm running Scribus and other programs on a RH9 system which is glibc 
> >> 3.2.3.
> >> I don't want to leave RH9, but at the same time I'd like to be able to 
> >> run PhotoPaint9 which only works with glibc < 3.2.3. Is it possible to 
> >> have two libc versions on the same installation? If so, what is what 
> >> and what is important. Or... any other clue to make PP9 run with libc 
> >> 3.2.3?
> >>  
> >> --Thomas
> > 
> > ==================
> > 
> > Thomas,
> > As glibc is a very important part of the base of your whole system, it's 
> > probably not wise to tinker with it.  I have heard of some folks running 
> >  2 versions, but more about folks killing their systems and reinstalling 
> > everything.
> 
> All too true. If you /do/ feel game to try running two glibc versions, 
> though, it is often possible. You would need to install the extra one in 
>   a special directory in /usr/local, say /usr/local/glibc-320. Building 
> from source and using './configure --prefix=/usr/local/glibc-320' would 
> be the easy way to do so. You then add it to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH before 
> running your special app, or use a wrapper script to do it for you. For 
> example:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/glibc-320:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH \
>    /usr/local/bin/appname
> 
> Naturally you'd replace '-320' with your chosen glibc version, I've just 
> picked 3.2.0 as an example.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 


Here is some more info from Havoc Pennington of RH and Gnome -(nice guy
btw) on parallel builds of libraries.

http://ometer.com/parallel.html

Hope that helps,
Peter