Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1555 mails)

[Ansgar Esztermann <aeszter@xxxxxxx>]

On Jun 30, 2009, at 18:27 , Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> Newer versions of glibc should run programs compiled against older  
> versions
> of glibc as long as the SO_NAME (and maybe SO_VERSION?) hasn't  
> changed.  You
> may want to report this segfaults as bugs in 11.1.

...unless the binary is (partly) static and calls e.g. getpwuid() (see  
Andreas' mail). I thought the binary in question was fully dynamic,  
but I was probably wrong.

> > When compiling on 11.1 and executing on 10.3, the linker gives an  
> > error:
> > : lee$; /usr/local/gromacs/405/fftw312-gcc412/bin/pdb2gmx -f 1UBI.pdb
> >
> > /usr/local/gromacs/405/fftw312-gcc412/bin/pdb2gmx: /lib64/libc.so.6:
> > version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by /usr/local/gromacs/405/
> > fftw312-gcc412/bin/pdb2gmx)
>
> The glibc package for 10.3 probably doesn't provide libc.so. 
> 6(GLIBC_2.7).
> In general compiling on a newer system and running on an older  
> systems isn't
> supported.  There's no good way to "fix up" an old version to match  
> the new
> version, but you can "fix" a new version to match an old version.

OK, fair enough.

> > A quick check seems to indicate that 11.0 will run binaries compiled
> > on either 10.2 or 11.1, so we have some leeway. Is there any hope to
> > compile a binary that will run on both 10.3 and 11.1?
>
> You may have to install some compatibility libraries on the 11.1  
> system.  I
> do not have a 10.3 system around to investigate.

There is a glibc-obsolete rpm, but it does not seem to install  
anything other than an empty directory.


Thank you for your reply.


A.

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Ansgar Esztermann
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Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Abteilung 105

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