[gmx-developers] `GLIBC_2.7' not found

[Axel Kohlmeyer]

>>
>> it is probably easiest to just recompile on the OSC machine.
>
> Or link to a static glibc?

static glibc is a _very_ bad idea. due to choices of how
glibc internals work, static binaries are even less portable
than dynamically linked ones. the most portable binaries
on linux today are compiled on the oldest possible machine
(RHEL 4.x is a good choice) and then linking the glibc and
compiler components libc, libm, libdl, libgcc, libpthreads,
and libstdc++ dynamically and the rest statically.

to get forward compatibility one basically has to copy
the equivalent library binaries to a special directory and
then do:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/new/glibc/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH \
/new/glibc/lib/ld-linux.so.2   /path/to/copied/executable  ...

it is a mess...

cheers,
   axel.

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Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.