[CentOS] Compile for C6 / glibc

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

On 08/25/2015 07:11 PM, Leon Fauster wrote:
> Am 25.08.2015 um 16:31 schrieb Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>:
>> 25.8.2015 4.03 ip. "Leon Fauster" <leonfauster at googlemail.com> kirjoitti:
>>
>>>
>>> In the hope that some skilled developers are here:
>>>
>>> We have a commercial product that do not run under CentOS6
>>>
>>> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found
>>>
>>> Is it possible to compile software (compile switch?) on a system that
>>> uses a newer glibc but in such a way that can be used (executed) on
>>> a system with an older glibc (like here: compiled on glibc 2.14
>>> based system but C6 is on 2.12)?
>>>
>>
>> How about virtualization and running on supported platform?
>
>
> The support of this vendor (2) is willing to provide
> such OS support for there products.
>
> The same was also offered by a different vendor (1), they just recompiled
> there software and gave us the opportunity to test it under C6. Before that
> it only was running under Ubuntu. I just was curious about such solution
> to give the second vendor a hint (the symptoms are the same).

So the easiest solution would be that the vendor (2) build the software 
on a C6 system. Most likely it will compile fine, and the produced 
binary will run on C6 as well as more recent distributions.