> (1) TeXLive does not compile any .so files for XeTeX but rather uses the > libfontconfig.so.1 of the system installed in, e.g., /usr/lib64/.
ok > (2) The trick is to compile the x86_64-linux binaries on a system with a > fairly old version of the GNU C Library in order not to depend on symbols > introduced more recently and not available on, e.g., CentOs5. Compiling an > .so on such a system would help but there is still the problem of different > versions of other shared libaries. lualatex-platform and harfbuzz don't seem to depend on other shared libaries... one (poor) solution would be to provide lualatex-platform for windows only... It is very platform-dependant code anyway, and it's only under Windows that it can do things that cannot be done otherwise simply. thank you, -- Elie
