[svlug] Updated MySQL RPM packages for Red Hat 9?

[Nick Austin]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:51:05AM -0800, DzM wrote:
<..snip..>
> On this legacy system there is at least one piece of software that I 
> depend on that will not run on a more modern kernel/glibc/whatever 
> system. Until I am able to smoothly migrate off of this software, the OS 
> is stuck at RH9.

I've solved an issue like this that enables me to run some of the old
Loki games on modern distributions.

Here is what I did:

$ which sc3u
/usr/local/bin/sc3u

$ cat /usr/local/bin/sc3u
#!/bin/sh

ROOT=/usr/local/games
COMPAT=$ROOT/Loki_Compat

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$COMPAT LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 $COMPAT/ld-linux.so.2 $ROOT/SC3U/sc3u.bin

$ ls -l /usr/local/games/Loki_Compat/
total 2916
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users  103044 Jul 28  2006 ld-linux.so.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users 1549556 Jul 28  2006 libc.so.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users   15084 Jul 28  2006 libdl.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nick users       8 Nov 16 21:04 libdl.so.2 -> libdl.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users  211876 Jul 28  2006 libm.so.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users  103104 Jul 28  2006 libpthread.so.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users  908016 Jul 28  2006 libX11.so.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nick users   53520 Jul 28  2006 libXext.so.6

I simply ran:
mkdir /usr/local/games/Loki_Compat/
cd /usr/local/games/Loki_Compat/
rpm2cpio /path/to/glibc-<old_version> | cpio -id

etc, etc...

I'll bet if you did something like this, you could run you're old app on
a modern distro.

Thanks!
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