[lug] Current RedHat info needed

[Zan Lynx]

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Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
> I'm not a RH user and I just downloaded an evaluation package for work
> that's set up to run on Linux.
> 
> The file name includes rh72-gcc34 and I presume that means it's for
> RedHat 7.2 and compiled with gcc 3.4.
> 
> To me, this seems a bit old, but when I tried looking up the current
> RH versions I see "Enterprise 5" and I wasn't able to sort out how the
> two versions relate.
> 
> Before I get back to the vendor and ask, I thought I'd ask here to
> ensure that I have done due diligence on keeping my foot out of my
> mouth :)
> 
> Thanks for any info - links to descriptive information gladly accepted.

Things that old should work, actually.  You may have to install
compatibility libraries though.

Here are a couple I had to install, for example:
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-135
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-56

Your particular versions will probably vary.  It may even be a LSB
compatible package in which case you need the LSB environment from
package redhat-lsb (I think).

Or it might include every single library that it needs in its own
directories and use rpath (one of the ELF program flags) or a launch
script with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set.

All I can say is try it and see what happens.
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