[Mageia-discuss] boinc and glibc

[John Bowden]

On Monday 06 Aug 2012 20:37:53 blind Pete wrote:
> Is anybody using BOINC? http://http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
> 
> The version on their website is slightly newer than the
> version in Mageia2's repository, but it complains about
> a glibc problem.
> 
> Is it sensible to try and install a different glibc?
> Or to link a new number to the existing file?
> Or modify boinc?
> Or use the older version of boinc?
> Or submit an upgrade request?  (How do you do that?)
> 
> [psd at test BOINC]$ ./run_manager
> ./boincmgr: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by
> ./boincmgr)
> [psd at test BOINC]$ ll /lib64/libc.so.6
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 15 13:31 /lib64/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.14.1.so*
> [psd at test BOINC]$ ll /lib64/libc-2*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1883280 Apr 28 13:23 /lib64/libc-2.14.1.so*
> [psd at test BOINC]$ rpm -qf /lib64/libc-2.14.1.so
> glibc-2.14.1-8.mga2
I have been using 6.10.58 from their web site, could not get our version to 
work and had similar problems to you with their newist version,
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