On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > 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). [ a rather painful option ] Install RedHat in a chroot and run the redhat-needing app there. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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