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

[Tyler Kiley]

I've put this issue off for several weeks, but finally came back to
it.  I tried the suggestions in this thread, but no dice.  I know
frustratingly little about executables and how they work, so pardon me
for asking more stupid questions.. :[

The (very short) strace log of the program is at
http://wordnet.net/urchin_strace.txt ; I really don't know what to do
next, or if it's time to throw in the towel and say it can't be done.

Obviously, the binary is expecting an older version of something on
the system... is there any way I could create an older "virtual
system" within this rhel3 system?  If so, could someone tell me the
correct term for that so I can google for it and figure out how to do
it? ;-)

(ugh, I should have learned all this stuff years ago... )

Tyler


On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:48:38 -0400 (EDT), Chris Ricker
<kaboom at gatech.edu> wrote:
> In addition to the other suggestions (except for sdb, that's just evil ;-),
> if it's multithreaded, try
> 
> $ LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 ./badprogram
> 
> or
> 
> $ LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 ./badprogram
> 
> later,
> chris
> 
> 
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