Shibboleth Developers

[giacomo tenaglia <>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:29:19AM -0500, Scott Cantor wrote:
> > 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.

Ok I will take a look after installed, thanks for the schema hint. What
do you mean with "Long term the SQL will be factored out"? That you will
exclude the use of SQL directly in the plugin?

> > 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.

Sorry for the bad english, I wanted to say: "in the default Scientific
Linux 4 installation there's only version 2.3.4 of glibc". I was trying
to use the RPMs for RHE, since SLC is supposed to be derivative. Thanks
for clearing the compatibility point.

> > 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.

Yes, I'm rebuilding the SRPMs, and it seems to work (I don't have
finished yet).

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

I will track problems that will rise. With 1.3 I've had no problems with
rebuilt SRPMs, by the way.

Thanks,
giacomo

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giacomo tenaglia
Technical Student at CERN IT-DES/SIS