Re: libc6 with support for old kernels
Ph. Marek a écrit :
> Hello everybody,
>
>
> I'd like to ask for some help.
>
> I have some machines running an old kernel (2.4.25, from Suse7.3).
> Now I'd like to get some newer software running on them, *without*
> re-installing the whole system.
> (That would be gnuplot, graphviz, subversion, fsvs, and some others).
>
>
> About a year ago I could take a debian-installation, take the needed
> files, and put them into a chroot on the old machines, and it worked.
> Without any problem.
>
> I wanted to do that again, with the current versions; but now I get an
> error message "Kernel too old" (from ld-linux.so AFAIK).
>
> [ I tried to use the sarge-packages; while the packages work on
> 2.4.25, they are really old versions, and unuseable. Eg. fsvs needs at
> least subversion 1.2, while sarge has only 1.1.4.
> backports.org has subversion 1.4.1 for sarge, but no libsvn0-dev. ]
>
> Is there an compiled libc6 that has support for older kernels, too, or
> some easy way to recompile it?
Support for 2.4 kernels has been removed from upstream glibc.
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