Re: [PLUG] Need a supported distro with old glibc

I suppose the obvious question is whether you now have a relatively-patched RHEL system running with a relatively-unpatched glibc installed (against which your new application is happily dynamically linked)?

-MJ

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com> wrote:

It turns out that the Red Hat way provides for a "compat-glibc" package.
One yum command and my system is apparently now equipped with glibc 2.12 and 2.5 at the same time. Who knew?

Out of curiosity, I checked whether there was a package by that name available for Mint 17. There is not.

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