Multiple glibc libraries on a single host

Question

Multiple glibc libraries on a single host

My linux (SLES-8) server currently has glibc-2.2.5-235, but I have a program which won\'t work on this version and requires

Answer 1

When I wanted to run a chromium-browser on Ubuntu precise (glibc-2.15), I got the (typical) message "...libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.19' not found...". I considered the fact, that files are not needed permamently, but only for start. So I collected the files needed for the browser and sudo and created a mini-glibc-2.19- environment, started the browser and then copied the original files back again. The needed files are in RAM and the original glibc is the same.

as root
the files (*-2.15.so) already exist 

mkdir -p /glibc-2.19/i386-linux-gnu

/glibc-2.19/ld-linux.so.2 -> /glibc-2.19/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
/glibc-2.19/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.19.so
/glibc-2.19/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 -> libdl-2.19.so
/glibc-2.19/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread-2.19.so

mkdir -p /glibc-2.15/i386-linux-gnu

/glibc-2.15/ld-linux.so.2 -> (/glibc-2.15/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so)
/glibc-2.15/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 -> (libc-2.15.so)
/glibc-2.15/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 -> (libdl-2.15.so)
/glibc-2.15/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 -> (libpthread-2.15.so)

the script to run the browser:

#!/bin/sh
sudo cp -r /glibc-2.19/* /lib
/path/to/the/browser &
sleep 1
sudo cp -r /glibc-2.15/* /lib
sudo rm -r /lib/i386-linux-gnu/*-2.19.so