can balsa run on a RH7.3 + gnome-1.4 + glibc-2.3.2?

["John Lumby" <johnlumby hotmail com>]

I've been using balsa on my RedHat7.3 for a long time.   The balsa level is 
1.4.2 that came with RedHat.   Recently I needed to upgrade the glibc from 
2.2.5 to 2.3.2 (for various reasons I don't want to upgrade to RH9).    I 
was expecting (hoping) that application packages such as balsa would not be 
affected as glibc-2.3.2 is binary-backward-compatible to 2.2.5.    And in 
fact, after installing a new XFree86 which I knew I would have to, 
everything else did work - except balsa, which failed with a segv.     I've 
tried building a new balsa (1.4.4) from src on the glibc-2.3.2 system,  both 
with and without threads.   Each of those also segv'd, althugh in different 
places.    (The one without threads did get as far as bringing up the window 
and showing the mailboxes but then segv'd).     I went as far as to build it 
(1.4.4) one more time on a restored glibc-2.2.5, building with -static to 
make a static-lib executable.    I couldn't statically-link all shared-obj's 
altogether but did link all the system libs such as libc.a.  That also 
segv'd when run on glibc-2.3.2, in yet another place.

Maybe what I'm trying to do is impossible - is there in fact some hard 
dependency in the balsa 1.4.4 on glibc-2.2.5?    But I thought I would ask 
here in case anyone else has ever succeeded with this.     Is it worth a 
shot trying balsa-2.x.x?   But I have gnome-1.4.

( I tried to search the mail archives but get  "non-existtent URL" error - 
no mailman/search???.)

John

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