[KLUG Members] Re: RedHat 8.0 libc5? -- not since RedHat 6.2?

[Adam Williams]

>>Does RedHat 8.0 not include a version of libc5?  Previous RedHat's did
>>for backwards compatibility but I can't seem to find one,  or else i'm
>>missing the obvious.  There is no /lib/ld-linux.so.1
>>From a table I created in this post:
>[ http://www.matrixlist.com/pipermail/leaplist/2002-August/022549.html ]
>              6.2       7.0      7.1       7.2      7.3       8.0-B2
>              Zoot      Guinness Seawolf   Enigma   Valhalla  Limbo2
>              --------  -------- --------  -------- --------  --------
>  Release       00Q1      00Q3     01Q1      01Q3     02Q2      n/a
>  ABI*
>    GCC       2.91.66   2.96-54  2.96-81   2.96-98  2.96-110  3.2-0.1
>    GLibC      2.1.3     2.1.92   2.2.2     2.2.4    2.2.5     2.2.90 
>--> Compat      4,5        6        6         6        6         7   <----
>  CDs
>    Binary       1         2        2         2        3         3
>    Source       1         1        1         2        2         2
>    PwrTools     1         1        1         -        -         -
>    Docs         1         1        1         1        1         1
>
>
>I don't think RedHat has included it since 6.2 (which had RedHat 4/5
>compatibility, aka LibC5 and GLibC 2.0).

Nice Chart!  

My upgrade(s) must have just dragged the files forward in time. 

Grabbed a RH5.0 CD, rpm --install libc-5.3.12-24.i386.rpm 
ld.so-1.9.5-3.i386.rpm, and now the crummy binary app is happy.