running F15 programs on a RHEL 5.6 box

[Andre Robatino]

M A Young <m.a.young <at> durham.ac.uk> writes:

> You only need the liblzma bits to be static. I think the following should 
> work

I did what you described on a F15 machine, and it works! Thank you. These could
also be used in place of the F14 compression upgrade hack, so I'll probably post
them
on my fedorapeople site. I don't understand why they both work, though - the F14
version of applydeltaiso failed with

applydeltaiso_f14: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by
applydeltaiso_f14)

so why does this version work, given that it was built on F15, without libc.so.6
being static?

I'm working now on trying to get a version of metalink that will run on
alt.fp.o. There is no metalink package in the RHEL repos, and running F14's
metalink gives the error

metalink_f14: error while loading shared libraries: libglibmm-2.4.so.1: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

and this library is included in the glibmm24 package, which IS in the EPEL repo,
but not installed. I'm trying to use your procedure with xz -> glibmm24 and
deltarpm -> metalink, but unfortunately metalink's Makefile is much more
complicated than deltarpm's (being generated by ./configure) so it's difficult
to figure out the proper edit. But this is much less important than the deltaiso
executables anyway.