[ale] java 1.2.2/multiple glibc versions

[James P. Kinney III]

John,
Look for the glibc-compat stuff. That should (I think) allow a older
stuff linked to glibc 2.1 to run OK.

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 07:31, John Wells wrote:
> After months of coaxing, begging and just a bit of
> threatening, I finally talked my company into allowing
> a subset of the developers in my group to run RH 7.2
> instead of Win2k.  What a great week ;-).
> 
> I've run up against a wall, however, that may threaten
> my victory.  A project I was recently put on requires
> running Netscape with the 1.2.2 plugin.  however, the
> only 1.2.2 plugin I can find for linux (at
> blackdown.org) requires glibc 2.1.  RH 7.2 is packaged
> with glibc 2.2.  I went ahead and installed it anyway
> and the applets loaded, but I noticed some pretty
> buggy behavior.  I'm hoping this is caused by glibc
> conflicts and not the plugin itself.
> 
> My question is, is it possible to install two versions
> of glibc on one system?  Will it cause major problems?
> 
> If so, do any of you java programmers out there know
> of a 1.2.2 plugin for glibc 2.2?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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