Glibc hell

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

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.

I'm facing the exact same problem (and on a cluster as well!). What I 
currently do is compile on my laptop, copy the binary with scp, then 
launch via ssh. It would be great if anyone knows of a better solution.

Andrei