RHEL 6 - how to install 'GLIBC_2.14' or 'GLIBC_2.15'?

Question

I need these 2 packages installed on RHEL 6 linux system. They are required by several other programs.

When I do:

sudo yum install glibc-devel

this is output:

Loaded plugins: product-id, security
Setting up Install Process
Package glibc-devel-2.12-1.166.el6_7.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

Is there some EPEL with GLIBC_2.15 for RHEL? If not - what is a workaround here?

Answer 1

This often occurs when you build software in RHEL 7 and try to run on RHEL 6.

To update GLIBC to any version, simply download the package from

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libc/

For example glibc-2.14.tar.gz in your case.

1. tar xvfz glibc-2.14.tar.gz
2. cd glibc-2.14
3. mkdir build
4. cd build
5. ../configure --prefix=/opt/glibc-2.14
6. make
7. sudo make install
8. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/glibc-2.14/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Then try to run your software, glibc-2.14 should be linked.

Answer 2

Naive question: Is it possible to somehow download GLIBC 2.15, put it in any folder (e.g. /tmp/myglibc) and then point to this path ONLY when executing something that needs this specific version of glibc?

Yes, it's possible.