Background
Installation
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.18.tar.bz2
tar jpSxf glibc-2.18.tar.bz2
cd glibc-2.18
mkdir build
cd build
module purge
module load gcc/4.9.2 cuda/8.0
../configure --prefix=/projects/nlpl/software/glibc/2.18
make -j 8
make install
make localedata/install-locales
cp -pr /etc/ld.so.conf* /projects/nlpl/software/glibc/2.18/etc
/projects/nlpl/software/glibc/2.18/sbin/ldconfig
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Oslo /projects/nlpl/software/glibc/2.18/etc/localtime
Usage