Re: glibc-2.3 compatibility issues with Maya and NetBackup

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 14:04, Lars Damerow wrote:
> We're testing Red Hat 9 for deployment on our desktop workstations, and have
> bumped against two showstoppers--Alias|Wavefront's Maya and Veritas NetBackup
> don't work. This is a big problem for us.
> 
> This seems to be caused by the well-publicized changes to the use of errno in
> the new glibc. Here's what Maya says when I try to run it:
> 
> lars@luna: rh9_glibc % /usr/anim/3rdparty/maya/bin/maya
> /usr/anim/3rdparty/maya/bin/maya.bin: relocation error: /usr/anim/3rdparty/maya/lib/libFoundation.so: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
> 
> I'm confused, though, because maya.bin is linking against what I'm assuming is
> a compatibility version of glibc:
> 
> lars@luna: rh9_glibc % ldd /usr/anim/3rdparty/maya/bin/maya.bin | grep libc.so
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
>
> Is there some hack or patch that I can make to get these things working until
> Alias|Wavefront and Veritas fix their code and/or linking? I have a really
> strong desire to get Red Hat 9 on our desktops (we're currently way back on
> 7.1) and need to get past this issue as soon as I can.

Have you applied all the glibc erratas?  I think one of them fixed some
compatibility symbols.

Thanks.
Peter