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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> I set this up without symlinks for the libraries, just used the actual
> library with the name of what was the symlink (libc.so.6 rather than
> something with 2.2.25 in it).  Is this acceptable?

Yes, if someone wants to overwrite their glibc libraries then they
will probably choose a newer version.

> Just those two additional libraries were needed (libresolv, libnss_dns) in
> addition to what ldd revealed for opera.  We got our friend using links2
> and opera and all went well except that he forgot his password for the
> site he needed opera for (he had just changed it) and the local mail
> account went down within an hour before we went over there to help him.

I tried your package with the static glibc-2.2.5 lynx. It needed four files
(I double-checked this time): ld-linux.so.2 libc.so.6 libnss_dns.so.2
libresolv.so.2. How can a 'static' binary use ordinary libraries??

> > somewhere.  But this may not solve your friend's problem: I tried this
> > version of links2 with my bank and it wouldn't work because the website
> > was detecting browsers by name and wouldn't let a browser without the
> > proper name interact with the secure server.  You may run into the same
> > problem: browser is capable, but it is disallowed because not used/known
> > widely enough.

links has a different problem: it does not implement enough javascript
for most web sites.

David