[ale] libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 for Centos 5?

[Phil Turmel]

Time for a java decompiler, I think.

On 6/19/21 8:55 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> No hope at all unless you build a vm with ancient code or toss the 
> entire build code away and start over with all new.
> 
> On June 19, 2021 8:49:22 PM EDT, Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>     Don't shoot, I'm only the messenger.  There was an old lady that
>     swallowed a fly...
> 
>     Her children needed to run a Progress SQL client to setup DBA
>     permissions.  It was written in Java, and it was written to run with
>     /usr/java/jre1.3.1_10.  On 32 bit Linux.   And her children only needed
>     to run it when building a new DB.  Which is about every 10 years.
> 
>     Unbeknownst to her, her children moved the whole thing to a 64 bit
>     Centos 5 system.  Including the Java.   Now, the Java startup scripts
>     didn't even know about x86_64.  It only knew about i386.  When she saw
>     that she was able to dink with the various wrapper scripts to make it
>     run the i386 32 bit stuff, which is the only Java libraries Progress
>     delivered to work with their client.
> 
>     This got her farther down the road, but not far:
>     /usr/java/jre1.3.1_10/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error while loading
>     shared libraries:
>            libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
>     file or directory
> 
>     Now, since this only needs to get run every maybe 10 years, it's not a
>     surprise this was not known by her children when they moved it.
> 
>     HOWEVER, attempting to obtain this, she finds...
> 
>     [root at austin native_threads]#  yum provides  libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
>     Loaded plugins: dellsysid, downloadonly, fastestmirror, rhnplugin
>     There was an error communicating with RHN.
>     RHN support will be disabled.
>     Error communicating with server. The message was:
>     Name or service not known
>     Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>     file://var/cache/yum/centos4-base-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5]
>     OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>     '/cache/yum/centos4-base-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml'
>     Trying other mirror.
>     Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
>     centos4-base-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
> 
> 
>     She doubts this 12 year old Progress Java program is going to just run
>     with the native java version "1.6.0_20"; it would seem the most prudent
>     to locate this binary library to allow the older Java version to run.
>     This is a one-shot one-time setup.
> 
>     Yes, she knows Centos 5, in fact ALL Centos is now in the dustbin.   Any
>     hopes for her?
> 
>     regards,
> 
>     Neal
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