[ale] binary compatibility (red hat 7.x to rhel3)

[tyler.kiley at gmail.com (Tyler Kiley)]

I've lived in blissful ignorance of all the issues related to binary
compatibility between different versions of linux so far, since most
everything I've needed has been either open-source or available in
packages designed for each distribution and version I want to use, but
now the issue has been forced upon me :/

I'm trying to replace an old red hat 7.3 webserver with one running
redhat enterprise 3.  Unfortunately, the old server was running a very
old copy of urchin (a closed-source webstats program).  It was
statically linked, so I thought it'd be okay, but when I try to run it
on the new box, it segfaults.  Getting a different binary from the
vendor isn't an option, and upgrading to a more recent version of
urchin is way out of my price range... is there anything I can try
that might make this binary work?

Advice is much appreciated -- especially if it leads to success :-)

Tyler