Any idea for upgrading glibc

[g.phanibabu]

Hi all,

I am using RHEL 4 system which comes with glibc-2.3.4-2.13. I want to run an application
which requires glibc-2.4 atleast.

I tried to upgrade, but for vain. The system has crashed, saying "Kernel Panic Error". And i do not have internet to my system.

Can anybody tell me how to upgrade glibc. OR atleast a resource of how to upgrade glibc

Waiting for answer.

Thanks in advance.

[Rubberman]

How did you "upgrade" your library? Also, a lot of your current applications are dependent upon the older version of glibc shared libraries. You cannot just install a binary version and expect things to work properly. You first need to revert to 2.3.4, then you need to get the source code for 2.4.x and build it, installing it into /usr/local/lib and not /usr/lib. You will also need to build your application for your environment, directing the build to link to glibc in /usr/local/lib. Also, when you run the application, you will likely need to modify your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment by prefixing it with /usr/local/lib so the runtime application finds the correct shared library. If you statically link the new glibc, however, you will not need to alter the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.