glibc6 question - plz help!

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

I was curious, so I just tried downloading it myself and examining the
binary's contents. Sure enough, it's an i386 ELF.

> From: Ben Hall <hallb@biology.queensu.ca>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:52:26 -0400
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: glibc6 question - plz help!
> 
> 
> Jason, were you compiling from source, or trying to use a supplied
> binary?  If it was the latter, I'd guess that the binary was compiled
> from Linux x86.  (Just about everyone assumes you're using Linux on an
> Intel system.)
> 
> Glibc (libc6) has been the default for most distributions since about
> 1999-2000.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben
> 
> Jason - DJay Fusion wrote:
> 
>> Hey,
>> 
>> I've got YDL 3.0 running extremely well on a G4 server and I am happy so far
>> with what I've seen.  I just have one simple (and kinda noobish) question:
>> 
>> I want to run some software that requires glibc6 to run and I don't think
>> those libraries are included in YDL 3.0.  I am sorta a new linux admin. and
>> don't know what I need to install or really what glibc6 is all about...  I
>> do know that they are GNU C language related, right?  The main software that
>> I could not get running was the linux version of ShoutCast MP3 server.  They
>> say on their site "This SHOUTcast server runs on Linux, and is an elf binary
>> compiled with glibc6. SHOUTcast no longer supports older Linux kernels
>> running libc5 or glibc".  I tried to run the binary anyway and it just gave
>> errors and I assume it has to do with this glibc6 stuff.
>> 
>> Can anyone help?  Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Jason - DJay Fusion
>> fusion@audiostatic.org
>> www.audiostatic.org
>> 
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