Re: dynamic ELF -> static executable?

Denes Molnar <molnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Thanks for the quick reply.

Please do not top-post.

> The humble goal was to install VNC (at least the server) on an a SE
> Linux AS 3.0 system for which there is only an unreliable 4.0.0 beta
> version RPM and where anyway I am only of the hundreds of average Joe
> users (no root access).

Your best bet is to find a binary VNC package built for glibc
which is older then the glibc installed on your "SE Linux AS 3.0"
(whatever that is).

> An alternative solution could have been to take a binary
> from somewhere else, say Fedora 4. The main issue there is that the SE
> Linux system is glibc-2.2, while Fedora uses version 2.3. I tried
> including via LD_LIBRARY_PATH all the Fedora 4 shared libraries that
> Xvnc is linked against (at least as reported via ldd),

Right. That doesn't work, as explained e.g. here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.system/browse_frm/thread/c7ca9f38d355718c

> and even Fedora's ld-linux.so, but that did not work.

That actually might work, if you invoke Xvnc via the "magic"

/path/to/fc4/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /path/to/fc4/libraries Xvnc

command line. I don't believe Xvnc starts any children, so the
complications mentioned in the above thread do not arise.

> Too bad it looks like there is no free lunch in this business - must
> have been too naive...

Actually, getting Xvnc compiled for glibc-2.2 should easily solve
all of your problems.

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