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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:49:52 +0100
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Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:

> The NixOS developers patch glibc to make sure that all software still
> runs on Linux 2.6.32:
>
>     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/develop=
ment/libraries/glibc/allow-kernel-2.6.32.patch
>
> Can we please also apply this?

We could also apply this conditionally to x86_64 only, because that=E2=80=
=99s
probably the only architecture that=E2=80=99s used for HPC systems runnin=
g
CentOS.

--
Ricardo