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Re: [ecs] Linux help needed with GLIBC "dependency hell" Neil Cherry Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:45:24 -0400

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Mark Gilmore wrote:
> I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 and released the ecs.bin that I built 
> under same.
> Now a customer (Paul) is reporting this error when he attempts to run ecs:
>     ecs.bin: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found 
> (required by ecs.bin)
> I have spent many hours reading thru hundreds of forum postings 
> regarding this problem
> And none have described a practical solution (rebuilding on an older 
> Linux is not a "fix").

There is no fix you've built ECS with a dependency on a later GLIBC
(mine is libc-2.5.so instead of the libc-2.3.2.so of your 2.6.1.so)

> SURELY this is a civilized way to update GLIBC ?????
> If not, is there no way for me to build a pgm that will run on older 
> kernels ??

I don't know

> I can't expect every customer to do a kernel upgrade so as to match mine.
> And even if i build w an older kernel, there will always be linux customers
> with even-older kernels.

Quite correct, I'm not sure where to go on this. I've not run into
but I don't have a commercial product.

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