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Re: libc versioning question

Date	2012-02-28 08:06 -0800
From	John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	Re: libc versioning question
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>   I have a (precompiled) program that requires libc 2.11
> but i only have libc 2.10. Is it practical or even possible
> to put the 2.11 files in some directory then run the program
> using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable so it would use
> the 2.11 versions?

Yes.  See  http://bitwagon.com/rtldi/rtldi.html .
For a one-time test you can run
  /path/to/new/ld-linux.so.2  --library-path  /path/to/new:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH  /path/of/execve/my_app  args...
with /path/to/new containing as much of the new glibc as you wish to test.

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