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David, how to sign up for Oracle Technet? Thanks.
Grace Tsai
Brookhaven National Lab
David Crooke wrote:
> This bugged me too - the binaries shipped with 8.0.5 are linked against
> the old
> glibc-2.0 and use calls which are not upwardly compatible to glibc-2.1 -
> what you need to
> do is this:
>
> 1. Install the glibc-2.0 backwards compatibility kit (5 RPMs on the RH6
> CD)
>
> 2. Get the patch from Oracle's ftp site which will update the makefiles
> to relink against
> the compatibility libraries (glibcpatch.tgz)
>
> Sign up for Oracle Technet and read all about it. Several users have
> posted step
> by step howtos on their web pages too.
>
> Enjoy
> Dave
Received on Mon Jun 28 1999 - 15:46:10 CDT