Re: x86-compat-libs on RHEL WS 3

Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:06:15 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.ia64.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

James Elliott ([email protected]) said: 
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but I need to run certain binaries that have 
> not been ported to the Itanium, in particular an installation routine, and 
> I need the runtime libraries for ix86 available. When I install these, I 
> still can't run the binaries as the runtime libraries make reference to an 
> older version of glibc.

There are i386 versions of some packages in the channel that you can
install; it places libraries in /emul/ia32-linux, which then should
be available for general use.

Bill