glibc and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Dear Managers,

I have a situation that requires a newer version of glibc. I would like to 
be able to do this w/o having to upgrade all my machines to a newer 
operating system.

I have many Redhat 7.3 systems that come with libc-2.2.5.so

I have some newer applications that require GLIBC_2.3.3

So I downloaded the sources from gnu.org and compiled and installed the 
same under /usr/local/glibc by doing a configure; make ; make install
and then set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/glibc/lib

Now any command that I run gives me a core dump(ofcourse, I can unset 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and everything is ok)
I am also unable to run the application that I need to run.

The program I am trying to run is available only in binary format and 
running an ldd on it gives me /lib/i686/libc.so.6 as one of the libraries 
that are needed(and version 2.3.3.)

Has anyone else had the need to have multiple glibc versions ?

All ideas are welcome :-)

Thanks,

/dev/null

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