[ale] binary compatibility (red hat 7.x to rhel3)

[Bob Toxen]

Try running strace on it.  It may be expecting a file in a different
place or one that is missing.  I just used that technique to figure
out why that poorly written kludge, up2date, stopped working on a
client's system.  Failing that, there's debuggers such as ddd and gdb.

Bob Toxen
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 05:13:38PM -0400, Tyler Kiley wrote:
> I've lived in blissful ignorance of all the issues related to binary
> compatibility between different versions of linux so far, since most
> everything I've needed has been either open-source or available in
> packages designed for each distribution and version I want to use, but
> now the issue has been forced upon me :/
> 
> I'm trying to replace an old red hat 7.3 webserver with one running
> redhat enterprise 3.  Unfortunately, the old server was running a very
> old copy of urchin (a closed-source webstats program).  It was
> statically linked, so I thought it'd be okay, but when I try to run it
> on the new box, it segfaults.  Getting a different binary from the
> vendor isn't an option, and upgrading to a more recent version of
> urchin is way out of my price range... is there anything I can try
> that might make this binary work?
> 
> Advice is much appreciated -- especially if it leads to success :-)
> 
> Tyler