[MPlayer-users] New MEncoder FrontEnd for Linux and Windows

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 01:04:10PM -0600, darkshadow wrote:
> V Mesquita wrote:
> 
> >>i guess it must be a very nice software... if i could run it. it 
> >>requires a
> >>newer version of glibc that the one i have:
> >>
> >>./MEncodeme: /lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found 
> >>(required
> >>by ./MEncodeme)
> >>
> >>any chance that you could make the sources available? or at least a 
> >>binary
> >>version compiled against glibc 2.2.x?
> >
> >I don't want to make the sources available for personal reasons, but I 
> >am willing to compile a Glibc 2.2.x version. Could please point me a 
> >distro (with the corresponding version) that comes with glibc 2.2.x, 
> >so I can download, install and make a speciall compile? Or is there a 
> >way to downgrade libc in knoppix (debian) without breaking the whole 
> >system? Or maybe there's an old knoppix version I can get with this 
> >older libc?
> >
> I don't use precompiled binaries but wouldn't a -static binary work on 
> any system with the downside being that it will be a bit larger

The downside being that it's also illegal to release unless you want
to release source too, since glibc is lgpl. (Actually there are a few
other ways to make it legal but they're a pain...)

Rich