glibc back compatibility

[Rui Pimenta]

Hi,

I'm trying to run some Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools on mandrake
9.2 but most of these tools say that they can only run on RedHat 7.3.

Is it possible to make the program "think" that it is running in a RedHat
7.3 system. Probably the problem would be on the glibc compatibility.

Does anyone have any idea of how to sort this out? Because it wouldn't like
to have to move to RedHat 7.3.

Thanks in advance,
Pimenta

[Amanda L. Rossmiller]

use ldd to find out what you need.
then install any dependencies you don't have
and as far as libraries, if it's something similar
to the same version you have installed,
(near to the version number)
i think you can usually just symlink it to that...
(someone correct me if i'm wrong)

[J.O. Aho]

You will need a gcc2.96 compat libraries installed, as all the RedHat 7.x
stuff is compiled with the GCC2.96 and will not run under a GCC3.x environment.

Glibc is backwards compatible with earlier versions (there are a few 2.2.x
versions that had some backward issues).

//Aho

[Rui Pimenta]

I did:

$ldd -v quartus
not a dynamic executable

so, how can I find which are the needed dependencies?

best regards,
Rui Pimenta

[Rui Pimenta]

> You will need a gcc2.96 compat libraries installed, as all the RedHat 7.x
> stuff is compiled with the GCC2.96 and will not run under a GCC3.x
> environment.

What is the name of the compat libraries, this because I installed a glibc
LSB package which says in the rpm description that is compatible with
previous versions. Probably it does not have the everything.

When I run the program I only get the message:

$quartus &
if: Expression Syntax.

Thanks in advance,
Pimenta