DMD with older versions of Linux

[Andrew Wiley]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Kai Meyer <kai at unixlords.com> wrote:

> On 08/03/2011 06:05 PM, Adam Davis wrote:
>
>> Dreamhost doesn't provide an updated glibc in my vps server. Is it
>> possible to
>> run dmd on somewhat outdated linux distributions?
>>
>> I tried running dmd from the distribution but got:
>>
>> ./dmd: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by ./dmd)
>>
>> The instaled versions are:
>>
>> $ ldd --version
>> ldd (GNU libc) 2.7
>>
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux ps54363 2.6.33.7-vs2.3.0.36.30.4 #23 SMP Tue Sep 28 05:47:35 PDT
>> 2010
>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> If it's not possible to run the standard DMD package, could I build it
>> from
>> source using those versions?
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>
> You're using the 32bit binary on a 64bit machine. It's possible they do not
> have 32bit glibc, or possibly 32bit glibc-compat installed. Try using the
> 64bit binary. (If you were using the 64bit library, it would have thrown an
> error on /lib64/libc.so.6 .)
>
> Also, 2.6.33 is not really "old". 2.6.18 would be "old". :) RHEL 6, just
> released last November is 2.6.32.
>
> -Kai Meyer
>

But we're already at kernel 3.0 :D
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