Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-20 Thread Mick
On Monday 18 Aug 2014 20:56:53 Timur Aydin wrote: > Thanks a lot guys for the helpful responses. I will definitely try all > of them, just for the learning experience, even if one does take care of > the problem. > > Cheers! Also worth looking into is meld, if you are not running kde on your syst

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 18, 2014 03:12:15 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > In cases like that I would do either of the following: > > > > 1) Run it inside a VM > > 2) run it inside a chroot > > > > That way you can easily keep everything updated except

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Timur Aydin
Thanks a lot guys for the helpful responses. I will definitely try all of them, just for the learning experience, even if one does take care of the problem. Cheers! -- Timur

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > In cases like that I would do either of the following: > > 1) Run it inside a VM > 2) run it inside a chroot > > That way you can easily keep everything updated except for that application. Or better still run it inside a container. Gives

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 18 August 2014 20:06:51 CEST, Timur Aydin wrote: >Hi, > >I am using a closed source software package on my 64 bit gentoo linux >system. The software package is "beyond compare" by scooter soft. >Because of the way this package is built, it needs a specially patched >version of glibc. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/08/2014 19:06, Timur Aydin wrote: Hi, I am using a closed source software package on my 64 bit gentoo linux system. The software package is "beyond compare" by scooter soft. Because of the way this package is built, it needs a specially patched version of glibc. I have patched my existing

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread Manuel McLure
One option is to copy the glibc version you want to some other directory and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before starting the executable. Running "ldd" on all the executables/shared libraries in question should give you a list of all the shared libraries you might need to copy to a safe place. On Mon, Aug