[lug] Current RedHat info needed

[Patrick P]

 7.2 is a version of linux that is about 5 years old from back before Redhat. now Redhat just produces their Enterprise product line. It may work on Enterprise 5 and may not.

> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:07:07 -0700
> From: zlynx at acm.org
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Current RedHat info needed
> 
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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.
> - --
> Zan Lynx
> zlynx at acm.org
> 
> "Knowledge is Power.  Power Corrupts.  Study Hard.  Be Evil."
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