On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2013/3/13 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com>: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:40 PM, George N. White III wrote: > >> On RHEL 5.9, TLContrib packages don't work: > >> > >> xetex: symbol lookup error: xetex: undefined symbol: > _ZGVNSt7collateIwE2idE > >> luatex: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by > luatex) > >> luatex: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by > >> luatex) > >> > >> RHEL 5 (GLIBC 2.5) dates from 2005 and was expected to be in service 5 > years > >> but is still widely used (7 is the new 5). RHEL 5 can't readily build > the > >> new xetex as the tools are too old, but it looks like RHEL 6 (due to > replace > >> RHEL 5 "real soon now" at many "7 is 5" sites) has GLIBC 2.12, so if the > >> TLcontrib packages are a guide, should support TL2013: > > > > Thanks a lot for the feedback. I guess that this is about x86_64-linux? > > > > The hardware being used for compiling XeTeX is different than the one > > that will be used for building TeX Live 2013, so there is no need to > > panic yet ;) > > > > I just need a volunteer or a virtual machine to build against an older > glibc. > > > I have just looked at CentOS 5.5 which should be based on RHEL 5.5. It > contains /usr/lib64/libc.co and /usr/lib/libc.so, I do not see any > other libc.so.* under /usr > > I can try to build XeTeX on it. > I did try building XeTeX on RHEL 5.9, but tools like autoconf are very old versions, so be prepared for a long session of upgrading tools. Is it realistic to expect that TL2013 binaries that use opentype math work on GLIBC 2.5 systems? I won't get back to the RHEL 5.9 machine until April, by which time I'm hoping we will upgrade to RHEL 6 (waiting on a vendor to support RHEL 6). -- George N. White III
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