Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
Duncan Hothersall wrote:
I just foolishly downloaded the 2005-11-16 linuxtex.zip minimal linux
distribution and copied it on top of my previous one, and I now
discover
that the binaries are linked to a more recent version of glibc than I
have on my linux box. Eek.
indeed annoying (and depressing); it also means that you cannot copy
an old tree to a new linux installation (this is what i found out
recently); on windows, one does not have this problem (since it
carries previous versions of libraries); i don't know how sensitive
macosx is for updates
It is precisely the same situation as Win98 refusing to run WinXP
binaries. (except it doesn't outright refuse that, it just makes
them crash unexpectedly and unexplainably)
sure, but at least i can run old texs during the time-span that xp is
around (say a 5 year pseudo-platform stability compared to a 1-year for
linux); it makes me worry a bit; maybe the tex code base is just messed up
But I grant that it is annoying ;-)
so we need to do something about it (some day -)
Hans
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