ksh93 on Caldera

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> I need to run ksh93 on Caldera 3.1.1. The pdksh that comes with 3.1.1 lacks
> features used in some test scripts that we want to run on Linux.
>
> I downloaded the compiled ksh93 for Linux from AT&T, only to see that it
> uses glibc 2.3, which I do not have installed.

I'm confused here.  If you compiled it from source, then it should be
using whatever version of glibc that you have, not some other version.  Or
did it not compile successfully due to a glibc-2.3 prereq?

> My question is, would I be able to simply make the glibc 2.3 binary
> available for the program and have it run? I do not want to do a real
> install of a new glibc as I expect it to be a potential problem. I

Upgrading glibc to 2.3 shouldn't be hard.  I've done it several times
withou any problems.  Going to 3.x is another story altogether.  If you
plan to maintain this box for a long time, you'll be saving youself a ton
of grief by upgrading glibc.

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