[PLUG] Upgrade glibc or Die Trying?

[Brian & Lori Nordlund]

I have been trying to get an application to run.  Unfortunately, it is a
commercial application that you are just supposed to untar and run.  Since
they want money, of course I don't have the source.

The name of the application is weather-display (www.weather-display.com) and
their last couple of releases include Linux versions (it has been a Windows
package for some time now).  I have already tried about six different GPL
programs for logging my weather station data and uploading it to
wunderground, but they all have one problem or another so I wanted to try
this commercial one.


Their elaborate install directions are as follows:


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Install Instructions
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Very Simple. Just unpack this tar ball into you home dir.
It must be your home directory for now.
Thats it !!

Running Weather Display
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Just cd ~/kylix
then ./GoWeatherD
thats it.

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Well, of course that's not "it".  First off, GoWeatherD is not the name of
the script, and it's installed in ~/wdisplay not in ~/kylix (and I don't
know who kylix is anyway).

The main issue I am having is that when it runs, I get the following error
message:

./WeatherD: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.3" not found (required by
/home/brian/wdisplay/deploy/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

My initial reaction was to try and upgrade my glibc 2.2.x to 2.3.x but I
have now read numerous horror stories about trying this.  I am running
Mandrake 8.2 and am using this as a server for everything.  I am not about
to risk crashing it just to try this stupid little program.

I am assuming there is some degree of commonality between different versions
of glibc.  Is there any way to spoof the program to use the old glibc and
see if it works?  If not, are there any other fool-proof (yes I'm the fool)
ways to set this thing up to work so I can try the program out?

Thanks,
Brian.