running G-WAN on RHEL5?

Question

I would like to try G-WAN but our server runs on RHEL5. I understood G-WAN needs glibc 2.11 (GLIBC_2.6) in G-WAN 3. Is there a version for RHEL5, source code, G-WAN 2 or any other way around this?

Answer 1

I had this issue too. Here's the deal.. glibc needs to be upgraded, this is system-wide. If you upgrade it you'll end up breaking LOTS of other things.

My suggestion is to either upgrade RHEL, try it in a virtualized environment on the RHEL install, or see if you can do it on a different machine.

For my case, we ended up migrating to a different machine.

Answer 2

What is the GLIBC version for RHEL5?

Looking at the latest G-WAN machine code, I found only a few calls for GLIBC > 2.0 so this could be resolved with dynamic linking. I will try to make it work for the next release but to be 'sure' that it will work for you we need to know your version of GLIBC.