• irex possible workaround

    From Anthony Rico@1:275/91 to All on Tue Mar 13 04:51:00 2012
    You are trying to run statically linked binaries which use NSS/dlopen/iconv
    and have been built against very old glibcs. This is not going to work, such programs were never portable, if they are able to run against glibc other
    than the exact version they have been compiled against, it is just by luck.
    The problem is that those statically linked binaries have their copy
    of the dynamic linker linked into them, and that copy isn't able to cope
    with current glibc. Current glibc warns at link time about such programs,
    so that developers are aware of the limitations of not-fully self-contained statically linked programs.

    To avoid using statically linked binaries, use -Bstatic ... -Bdynamic since
    it is way preferred, that way one can decide what libraries should be linked into the program and what libraries are linked dynamically. Certainly,

    As a possible workaround, you could try unpacking some old glibc into some directory, say ~/oldglibc/lib and then run the statically linked program with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/oldglibc/lib ./statically_linked_program
    This certainly will not work if the statically linked program tries
    to execute some dynamically linked program though

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  • From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Anthony Rico on Tue Mar 13 20:50:28 2012
    Hello Anthony!

    13 Mar 2012 04:51, Anthony Rico wrote to All:

    As a possible workaround, you could try unpacking some old glibc into some directory, say ~/oldglibc/lib and then run the statically linked program with

    glibc cant be downgraded safely so it might not be good idear make workarounds either

    if irex code is recowered i like to build a gentoo/funtoo ebuild for it


    Regards Benny

    ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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  • From Anthony Rico@1:275/91 to Benny Pedersen on Wed Mar 14 04:17:00 2012
    glibc cant be downgraded safely so it might not be good idear make workaro either

    if irex code is recowered i like to build a gentoo/funtoo ebuild for it

    Supposely you dont have to downgrade. If this workaround gets it working without breaking anything, then by all means use it. Otherwise like
    everything else try it at your own risk.

    Cheers!

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