Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: Virtualbox on the other hand is pretty much hassle free in my experience. Can't talk about vmware - haven't used that in years ;) Thanks for the pointer to Virtualbox... I hadn't heard of it. Looks like the wiki has some help, though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

2009/10/31 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: I was in a similar position some years ago - grab a copy of the needed libs from somewhere and use ldpreload to load them into memory before running the application.  Google will help. In some cases, you can symlink the needed lib names to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing an old glibc to run a proprietary commercial tool (would that even help?)

Thank you both for your quick response. I'll probably end up taking the virtual machine approach. I may also try some sort of chroot solution... I'll see how much of a hassle vmware is. 2009/10/30 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: On Freitag 30 Oktober 2009, Albert Hopkins