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[Lumin Etherlight]

>> does that include package which explicitly state
>> in the README that the package require the newer
>> GLIBC?
>>
>> I maintain one such script (signal-desktop) and
>> it would be a shame to see it removed from the
>> repo.
>>
>>> Indeed.  Especially after somebody shared a
>>> simple hack to get it to work under Slackware
>>> 15.0.

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org> writes:

> Unfortunately yes

        Signal is  an important package,  so perhaps
  we can make the SlackBuild patch the binary itself
  and thus  it would work on  Slackware 15.0 without
  user intervention.   I wrote  some instructions[1]
  on my  website, and wrote a  script[2] to automate
  the patching process.  The  patch forces Signal to
  use a glibc install  in /opt using rpath.  Perhaps
  we can  provide a simple  glibc-opt-bin SlackBuild
  which would install glibc  from /testing into /opt
  to support the installation of Signal (and perhaps
  other packages that may  follow the same pattern).
  I've been using  Signal on 15.0 for  more than two
  months in this manner; it's stable and works well.

[1]: https://lumin.etherlight.link/c/2C2606/mf3gC
[2]: https://lumin.etherlight.link/s/2C2606/saNeW/slackware-signal-glibc-workaround.sh


Best Regards,
Lumin Etherlight