Problem with gcc2.95.3 and glibc 2.2.5

[Aseem Rastogi]

Hi,

I have a red hat 9.0 system which has glibc version 2.3.2-5 and default 
g++ version 3.2.2.

My application doesn't compile on g++-3.2.2 because of strict 
typechecking etc. So, I installed g++-2.95.3 on my machine. The 
application compiled but then it always hangs on a runtime call to 
pthread_cond_broadcast. I thought it is because of incompatibility of 
glibc-2.3.2-5 with gcc-2.95.3. I then installed glibc  2.2.5.-34 with 
which gcc-2.95.3 is known to work (for my
application). I installed this glibc in a custom directory.

Now, when i compile a simple "hello world" program with g++-2.95.3 with 
flags -Wl,--dynamic-linker=<glibc-install-dir>/lib/ld-linux.so.2, the 
program compiles and output of "ldd a.out" command shows that it is 
picking glibc libraries from my custom installation only as desired.

But, there are two problems:

1. If I try to build a dynamic library by executing:

g++ -shared -fPIC -Wl,--dynamic-linker=<glibc-install-dir>/lib/ld-linux.so.2

ldd of the output library doesn't show my custom glibc installation. 
rather it shows that glibc is being picked up from standard location. 
How do I solve this? Is there something special that i need to do so 
that dynamic libraries also pick glibc from my custom glibc installation.

2. How do I make my custom glibc installation as default glibc location 
for gcc. I don't want to put 
-Wl,--dynamic-linker=<glibc-install-dir>/lib/ld-linux.so.2 everytime?

Is this a problem with glibc or gcc? Any help with above issues is 
really appreciated.

Thanks,

Regards,
Aseem.

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