[ale] libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 for Centos 5?

[Jim Kinney]

No hope at all unless you build a vm with ancient code or toss the entire build code away and start over with all new. 

On June 19, 2021 8:49:22 PM EDT, Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Don't shoot, I'm only the messenger.  There was an old lady that 
>swallowed a fly...
>
>Her children needed to run a Progress SQL client to setup DBA 
>permissions.  It was written in Java, and it was written to run with 
>/usr/java/jre1.3.1_10.  On 32 bit Linux.   And her children only needed
>
>to run it when building a new DB.  Which is about every 10 years.
>
>Unbeknownst to her, her children moved the whole thing to a 64 bit 
>Centos 5 system.  Including the Java.   Now, the Java startup scripts 
>didn't even know about x86_64.  It only knew about i386.  When she saw 
>that she was able to dink with the various wrapper scripts to make it 
>run the i386 32 bit stuff, which is the only Java libraries Progress 
>delivered to work with their client.
>
>This got her farther down the road, but not far:
>/usr/java/jre1.3.1_10/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error while loading
>
>shared libraries:
>     libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such 
>file or directory
>
>Now, since this only needs to get run every maybe 10 years, it's not a 
>surprise this was not known by her children when they moved it.
>
>HOWEVER, attempting to obtain this, she finds...
>
>[root at austin native_threads]#  yum provides  libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
>Loaded plugins: dellsysid, downloadonly, fastestmirror, rhnplugin
>There was an error communicating with RHN.
>RHN support will be disabled.
>Error communicating with server. The message was:
>Name or service not known
>Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>file://var/cache/yum/centos4-base-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5]
>
>OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
>'/cache/yum/centos4-base-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml'
>Trying other mirror.
>Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
>
>centos4-base-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
>
>
>She doubts this 12 year old Progress Java program is going to just run 
>with the native java version "1.6.0_20"; it would seem the most prudent
>
>to locate this binary library to allow the older Java version to run.  
>
>This is a one-shot one-time setup.
>
>Yes, she knows Centos 5, in fact ALL Centos is now in the dustbin.  
>Any 
>hopes for her?
>
>regards,
>
>Neal
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