R help - Jul 1999 - Hack for making old R binaries work after glibc upgrade

Perhaps a bit of a moot point since Martyn now does 6.0 RPM's, but I
thought someone might have a use for it, now that I've stumbled across
it...

$ cat > dummy.c
__setfpucw(){}
$ gcc -shared -o dummy.so dummy.c
$ LD_PRELOAD=$PWD/dummy.so R

R : Copyright 1999, The R Development Core Team
Version 0.64.2  (July 3, 1999)

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