Filepro 4.8 and Linux kernel 2.6

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:38:20 -0400):
[... filePro 4.8 on Fedora Core 3 (kernel 2.6) not working ...]
> I had this problem with a 5.0 release on 2.6.  If I remember correctly
> what Mark said, it's to do with static vs dynamic library linking, and
> no, it's unlikely that you'll get 4.8 to run on 2.6, absent possibly
> major library wrangling the details of which I do not know.
>
> I had a thread on this myself over last weekend; check the archive for
> Mark's reply.

Yes, I believe the problem was that they somehow managed to break
compatibility with statically linked binaries (like filePro) by making
a change to the glibc interface.  This is something that static linking
is supposed to avoid.  As I recall, Ryan tracked it down to something
which is called by something which is called (...) by the getpwnam()
function.  Apparently, somewhere down the line, the static library
calls a dynamic library, and the interface to the dynamic library had
been changed.

Assuming that that's the cause of the problem here, then the only real
options are to either go back to RH8 (or some other compatible release),
or to upgrade filePro 5.0.09 (or maybe 5.0.10) or later.  filePro 4.8
is too old to run on this incompatible release of the O/S.

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