Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:21 PM, wrote: >>> Perhaps, but I’m running CentOS 6.6 i686 (i.e., 32-bit), and it appears >>> that Docker requires 64-bit. Oh well, I was getting my hopes up for a > while. > > I haven't really been following this thread closely, but would it be a > dumb question

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Alfred von Campe > wrote: >> On Mar 31, 2015, at 12:21, Jim Perrin wrote: >> Isn't this the problem that docker was invented to solve? >>> >>> Yes, you could address this with docker quite easily, depending on the >>> app. >> >> Perhaps

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Mar 31, 2015, at 12:21, Jim Perrin wrote: > >>> Isn't this the problem that docker was invented to solve? >> >> >> Yes, you could address this with docker quite easily, depending on the app. > > Perhaps, but I’m running CentOS 6.6 i68

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Mar 31, 2015, at 12:21, Jim Perrin wrote: >> Isn't this the problem that docker was invented to solve? > > > Yes, you could address this with docker quite easily, depending on the app. Perhaps, but I’m running CentOS 6.6 i686 (i.e., 32-bit), and it appears that Docker requires 64-bit. Oh w

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Jim Perrin
On 03/31/2015 11:12 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Alfred von Campe > wrote: >> >>> Tell your vendor you want a centos 6 version of the library, it's really >>> not a huge ask, esp if you are paying them. If they say no, do a new >>> install of centos 7 and run it on

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > >> Tell your vendor you want a centos 6 version of the library, it's really >> not a huge ask, esp if you are paying them. If they say no, do a new >> install of centos 7 and run it on a different box. It's the only reasonable >> thing to

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-31 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:47:24PM -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: > Forget I ever said I wanted to replace glibc. Assume it’s a different > library or application. Except libc is not just like any other library. Unless you're going to recompile the software, the location of the ld loader is hard

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-30 Thread Alfred von Campe
> On Mar 30, 2015, at 17:24, Patrick Flaherty wrote: > > Tell your vendor you want a centos 6 version of the library, it's really > not a huge ask, esp if you are paying them. If they say no, do a new > install of centos 7 and run it on a different box. It's the only reasonable > thing to do, an

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-30 Thread Patrick Flaherty
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > We have a third party shared library from a vendor that requires glib 2.15 > or newer. We are using CentOS 6.6 which comes with glibc 2.12, and I know > it can't be replaced as it's an integral part of the OS. > > However, is it possibl

Re: [CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-30 Thread James Pearson
Alfred von Campe wrote: > We have a third party shared library from a vendor that requires glib 2.15 or > newer. > We are using CentOS 6.6 which comes with glibc 2.12, and I know it can’t be > replaced > as it’s an integral part of the OS. > > However, is it possible to build a glib 2.15 RPM fro

[CentOS] Building a newer glibc RPM for CentOS 6 and installing into an alternate path

2015-03-30 Thread Alfred von Campe
We have a third party shared library from a vendor that requires glib 2.15 or newer. We are using CentOS 6.6 which comes with glibc 2.12, and I know it can’t be replaced as it’s an integral part of the OS. However, is it possible to build a glib 2.15 RPM from source to be installed in /opt/cen