FC5 breaks Accelrys InsightII

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:28:52PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Yet another broken proprietary application. Yawn... 

Sure, another Linux workstation in the industry converted to
Win XP. Who cares.

These fools could have used an open source equivalent of Insight!
Wait. There is no open source equivalent of Insight.

Still, how could these dumb users expect things to work! Applications
which were binary compatible in Windows 3.1 and still work in Windows 
Server 2003 can't be expected to run in the next kernel revision.
That's completely obvious and expected.

Mumble the mantra "Dynamics is good. Breakage is inconsequential."
long enough, and it ceases to matter.
  
> IIRC, at least one person on this list got one LinuxThreads-only app to work by 
> extracting the FC4 glibc RPM and the other libs needed by the app in FC4 
> versions into the application directory and playing around with LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
> in a wrapper script. Try searching the list archives for more details. It's a 
> hack, of course. Good luck! 

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