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

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Tyler Kiley wrote:

> 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?

In addition to the other suggestions (except for sdb, that's just evil ;-),
if it's multithreaded, try

$ LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 ./badprogram

or

$ LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 ./badprogram

later,
chris