What about *nix???

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009, Fairlight wrote:
>When asked his whereabouts on Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:55:08PM -0500,
>John Esak took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>> 
>> So, that's nice.... But what about Unix?  Now, I have some documentation
>
>What about linux?  RHEL3 is no longer supported by fP-Tech, aparently.
>The GLIBC distribution of this NON-EOL distribution (it still gets
>updates from the vendor) is not new enough to support the binaries as
>distributed.  A client went to update yesterday and got a rude surprise
>during installation.  GLIBC_2.4 is required and the latest this goes is
>2.3.3.

I don't think this is directly related, but I have run into
problems on Linux boxes with 2.6.x kernels and old binaries that
are compiled assuming that errno is an int.  On SuSE Linux
Enterprise 9 and later, setting this environment variable allows
these to run successfully.

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

The programs that need this are generally built on older versions
of Red Hat which either haven't be recompiled or the developers
are too lazy/ignorant to fix their C source.

Bill
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