>> "RKL" == Ryan K Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RKL> I know that I'm probably a moron for running "up to date" potato RKL> systems. However, when potato moved to Glibc 2.1, my Star Office RKL> 5 stopped working. Is there any way to have BOTH Glibc 2.0 and RKL> 2.1, or is there some other way to make Star Office 5 work?
Try this: From: Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Slink to potato upgrade To: John Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> X-Sent: 5 days, 20 hours, 5 minutes, 57 seconds ago Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, John Lines wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: >> As far as dodgy programs relying on undocumented features, I've no >> idea what could be done. Redoing those features just for jdk might be >> a good idea, maybe. :-/ > I have wondered about putting a copy of glibc2.0 into oldlibs and > providing wrappers for programs (such as StarOffice) which break, > and which we cant change. (Note I have not yet tried this, so I > don't know if it will work) It will work. Just make sure you also have a copy of the ld-linux.so from glib2.0. You need a wrapper something like this: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/glibc2.0 /path/to/ld-linux.so.fromglibc2.0 /path/to/app/which/breaks (all one line) Jules
