Glibc hell

[Frits van Bommel]

dsimcha wrote:
> Apparently, DMD for Linux requires a non-ancient version of Glibc to work, and
> worse yet, all the stuff compiled by it requires a similarly non-ancient
> version.  The problem is that I'm trying to run some jobs on a cluster that
> has an ancient version of Linux that my sysadmin doesn't want to upgrade.
> Given that i don't have any root/admin privileges, and will never get them,
> does anyone know of a workaround to make DMD, or at least stuff compiled by
> it, work with ancient versions of glibc?
> 
> P.S.  Nothing illegal/unethical, such as cracking the root acct. please.

Can't you just statically link to a non-ancient glibc?

Alternatively you could probably link with it dynamically, possibly with 
some renaming and/or playing with LD_LIBRARY_PATH.