[ILUG] Running two versions of glibc in order to use Orbix 2000 on Redhat 6.0

[Barry Haddow]

Hi

When trying to configure Orbix 2000 on a RH 6.0 box, I get the following error:

deploying Locator daemon..../configure: error in loading shared libraries:
./configure:  symbol vfork, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file
libpthread.so.0 with link time reference

Working under the assumption that this is caused by having the wrong version of
glibc (O2K is only supported under RH 6.1/6.2) I set about trying to install
glibc 2.1.3, to be used in parallel. I think I had the same problem with JDK
1.3 so it would be useful if I could solve the problem in a less painful
fashion than upgrading RH.

So I built glibc 2.1.3, installed it in prefix = /local/glibc, and created a
user 'orbixusr' with 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/local/glibc/lib' in its
~/.bashrc. But the problem is that whenever I try to execute anything as
orbixusr, I get the following error:

[orbixusr at castalia bin]$ ls
ls: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: version `GLIBC_2.1.1' not found (required by /local/glibc/lib/libc.so.6)

Is there anyway I can get this naive approach to work, or do I have to upgrade
RH?

thanks in advance
Barry