Shibboleth Developers

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> after some headaches with 1.3 I've decided to test the Clustering ODBC
> plugins in 2.0, so I'm trying to install the SP on SLC4.

I'll help as much as I can, the ODBC stuff works but isn't documented yet
and hasn't been tested with many different drivers. Long term the SQL will
be factored out, but I didn't have time to work on that. The odbc-store.cpp
source file should have a comment containing the database schema it uses, at
least in T-SQL. Should be adapatable to others.

> The main problem I'm having is that the default installation has glibc
> at version 2.3.4, and I noticed that 2.4 is needed.

What default installation? There is no such thing. Binaries are specific to
each platform. NEVER use RPMs on a platform other than what they were built
on. Ever. That goes for all software, not just Shibboleth. Linux is not
binary compatible across versions. Solaris tends to be, but not Linux.
 
> In your opinion, is
> it possible to build from SRPMs or from sources with glibc2.3, or I have
> to ask for an upgrade (that can be difficult) ?

You have to rebuild from source if there aren't binaries posted for your
platform, period. It has nothing specific to do with glibc. Rebuilding the
SRPMs should be trivial.

$ rpmbuild --rebuild <package>

I don't specifically support that version of Linux however. I can accept
patches as needed, that's about the best I can do.

-- Scott