FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Leon Goldstein]

Net Llama! wrote:

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>>Running ldd on the xwp executable in ~/wpbin is the first
>>troubleshooting step.
>>
>>It reported libc.so.5 and libm.so.5 residing in /usr/i386-compat-gnulibc1,
>>so the startup shell script is doing its job and setting the
>>environment, i.e. telling xwp where to find its libc5.
>>
>>What is happening here, I think, is the same problem that occurs with
>>other problematic distro's, namely the Linux dynamic linker (ld.so) is
>>not working.
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>>
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>Or the ancient libc5 libraries that you installed aren't compatible with 
>the rest of the system.
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It seems the problem is with the version of libc6; it is "supposed" to 
provide the dynamic linker support.
However, as I mentioned previously users have coaxed and cajoled some 
other current distro's into cooperating.

Interestingly, some SuSE 10 users have gotten good results by installing 
the shlibs5 package group from an earlier release.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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