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

[Gaurav Goel]

Thanks. I just compiled a new version on OSC.

-Gaurav

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Axel Kohlmeyer
<akohlmey at cmm.chem.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>> Mark
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