Installing Lahey fortran (libc5?) in Potato

[José Luis Gómez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans@sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi!
	I want to install Lahey's fortran 95 compiler in my debian box.
This is a vanilla (ish!) potato box which works fine. However, there is
a little catch: the installer (which takes a key and licences the
software, copies the files and so on) is a shell script that calls some
programs. These programs seem to be linked against libc.so.5 and will
not run. The installer detects the version of libc/glibc I'm running
(glibc 2.1) without a glitch, but since these other executables are
needed and are not being run, the installation isn't succesful. 

	If I create a quick hack (ln -s :D) libc.so.5 to the real libc,
the think segfaults (which is to be expected, I suppose). I have thought
about compiling an older libc for installation purposes (I can always
select which version of the compiler I want to install anyway), but I
don't know how hard this is, and whether it might break my system.

	Does anyone have any views on this? They'd be appreciated (and
especially if mailed directly!).

	Cheers,
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK