Re: Slink to potato upgrade
On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, John Lines wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> >
> > As far as dodgy programs relying on undocumented features, I've no idea
> > what could be done. Redoing those features just for jdk might be a good
> > idea, maybe. :-/
> >
> I have wondered about putting a copy of glibc2.0 into oldlibs and providing
> wrappers for programs (such as StarOffice) which break, and which we cant
> change. (Note I have not yet tried this, so I don't know if it will work)
It will work.
Just make sure you also have a copy of the ld-linux.so from glib2.0.
You need a wrapper something like this:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/glibc2.0 /path/to/ld-linux.so.fromglibc2.0
/path/to/app/which/breaks
(all one line)
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