2 things working against this suggestion. 1) we have many other applications installed that would have to be recompiled and updated, 2) we are on rhel3 and would incur cost to move all our workstations to a newer version to support.
Glade is a great application, I would like to transition to it from klayout, but this issue may be what prevents this change over.
Perhaps you or someone in the forum can suggest how to install new os without impacting installed applications?