On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:17:16AM +0100, John P. Looney mentioned:
> I've a package that's shipped binary only, and compiled for RedHat 9.
>> As you know, I'm a big fan of RPMs, but I'm not sure how to solve this
> problem with packages. For instance, it's complaining about not having
> libstdc++.so.5
> libgcc_s.so.1
>> And most likely another brace of files too. Is there a neat way to get
> newer libs on an already running system, without breaking it ?
I should expand; to date, my efforts have been in the direction of
copying required libs into a folder, and running:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/rh9 /usr/local/bin/vendor_program
But, it's not quite working; pretty much everything segfaults. I'm gonna
have to do a whole chroot thing, aren't I ?
john
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