I am trying to use a statistical package, XploRe, which uses libc5. the program is only available as a binary from www.xplore-stat.de. On the current Debian release it finishes with
Regex Error: Memory exhausted Aborted ldd gives # ldd xpl4.exe libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x4000b000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x40019000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4005b000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x400f9000) libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40104000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x40107000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40110000) libg++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 (0x40125000) libstdc++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.27 (0x4015d000) libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4019a000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401a3000) libstdc++.so.2.7.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 (0x40261000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4029e000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x402b7000) ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4035c000) I figure it shouldn't use the last three, because on slackware it runs fine ans ldd gives: libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40009000) libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40016000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40054000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400e5000) libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x400ef000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400f2000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400fa000) libg++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 (0x4010e000) libstdc++.so.27 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.27 (0x40146000) libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40177000) libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40180000) How can I prevent the last libraries being loaded? Thanks, Nikolaus -------------------- Nikolaus A Siegfried Volkswirtschaft Universität Hamburg Von Melle Park 5 20146 Hamburg, Germany http://amadeus.econ.uni-hamburg.de