On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Manuel Wolfshant <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/14/2012 06:10 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: >> >> I want to install sbcl (steel bank common lisp). However sbcl >> requires glibc_2.14. > > If sbcl really needs glibc 2.14 ( which I doubt ), you cannot use it in RHEL > 6 unless you create a chroot where you install both sbcl and a newer glibc.
I am not familiar with details of chroot (other than what I read this mornign on google). Does that mean that the chroot would need to contain *all* other libraries that sbcl would require? > If the binary that you have found a newer glibc that but it is not a hard > requirement of the source (but the binary was built for a different distro), > see the options listed below. > > >> I did not find glibc_2.14 (and 2.15 and 2.16) rpm's for rhel6. > > For as long as RHEL6 will exist glibc will stay at its current level Thank you, I thought so. > > > >> Is compiling my own version the only other alternative? A general question: Is it bad form to compile my own version of glibc and place it in /usr/local/... > > There are at least 2 options here > - persuade the maintainer of the EPEL package to update it But the maintainer of EPEL sbcl would still need a new version of glibc, right? > - grab the source package from epel and the source of sbcl , edit the spec > file included in the source rpm and build a newer, updated version. > > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv6-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list Thank you, Mirko _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
