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Multiple glibc libraries on a single host

My problem is as follows:

I need to compile VLC 1.1.12 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (This is the same for development / production environment).

With current version of glibc, VLC throws the following error in ‘configure’:

checking for buggy GNU/libc versions... found
configure: error: Buggy GNU/libc (version 2.5 - 2.7) present. VLC would crash; there is no viable
work-around for this. Check with your distribution vendor on how to update the glibc run-time. Alternatively, build with --disable-nls --disable-mozilla and be sure to not use LibVLC from other applications/wrappers.

So I tried to compile glibc 2.9 separately on the server and installed it in a custom location /opt/glibc-2.9

Now I can’t figure out if I can use this custom glibc when I try to compile VLC.

Can someone please advice if this is possible and if yes, how to do this?

Thanks

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Can someone please advice if this is possible and if yes, how to do this?

See this answer.