Re: IDL on Linux Server

[JD Smith <jdsmith(at)astro.cornell.edu>]

Nigel Wade wrote:
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> 
> On 08/03/01, 14:43:41, James Tappin <sjt@star.sr.bham.ac.uk> wrote
> regarding Re: IDL on Linux Server:
> 
> > On a SuSE 7.0 box (which has very similar versions of most things to RH
> > 6.2), IDL 5.4 installed and ran in demo mode, but the licence server
> needed
> > libc5 (available for SuSE as a compatibility package so I guess RH does
> so
> > as well).
> 
> As I neither run a license manager on Linux, or have IDL 5.4 to check
> this may
> be meaningless. But I've just checked on lmgrd for IDL 5.3 and this
> appears
> to be linked against libc6, ldd says :
> 
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001d000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> 
> Did IDL 5.4 lmgrd somehow go back a step?
> 

% ldd /usr/local/rsi/idl/bin/bin.linux.x86/idl_lmgrd
        libc.so.5 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000d000)

% rpm -qf /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5.3.12
libc-5.3.12-31

idl_lmgrd needs the compatibility library.

JD