Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!
Paul Sargent wrote:
...
> Now Application A (What the apps are really doesn't matter. They're closed,
> I don't have source), for which the box was originally built, was developed
> by the software house on Debian. So when it came time to build our box we
> replicated their systems and used Debian (Testing). This also suited me for
> obvious reasons.
>
> This has worked so well that we're starting to look at running other jobs on
> this box. This is where the problems start. Application B is supplied by a
> different software house, one which has RedHat 6.2 as it's supported
> platform. Unfortunatly, during trials we've observed stability problems,
> with the application crashing in repeatable ways.
...
the difference is almost 100% in shared libraries used. You have few
options:
- get them to build statically linked application,
- get them to send you all the shared libraries they have on the
working system and use force application to load those instead of the
shared libs that are on your system (maybe chroot or jail the
application).
- get the exact versions of all the shared libs they use and build
these on your system and do the same as in previous case.
alternatively let them do the same (use your libs), it's more work for
them so I guess they would be reluctant to do it but it would also make
it possible to actually solve the problem (which is _probably_ on their
side, from what you wrote).
erik
Reply to: