Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Nov 01 2009, Vnpenguin wrote: a) (dangerous; I would not do it) install a more recent version of libc on your machine It's NOT possible. Hello Vnpenguin, Why not? b) we need to set up some virtual machine with an old linux and compile binaries there or find someone else

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Nov 01 2009, Vnpenguin wrote: xetex xetex: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by xetex) Hello, Here, I don't know how to help. I've these packages on my system: libstdc++33-3.3.3 libstdc++33-devel-3.3.3 libstdc++41-devel-4.1.3_20080612

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-02 Thread Vnpenguin
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 09:20, Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote: On Sun, Nov 01 2009, Vnpenguin wrote: a) (dangerous; I would not do it) install a more recent version of libc on your machine It's NOT possible. Hello Vnpenguin, Why not? In our production environment, only RHEL

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Vnpenguin
Hi, Just installed minimal on CentOS x86_64. The installation is ok, but when I try pdftex, there is error: pdftex pdftex: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by pdftex) yum list installed glibc* Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Excluding Packages in global

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:00, Vnpenguin wrote: Hi, Just installed minimal on CentOS x86_64. The installation is ok, but when I try pdftex, there is error: pdftex pdftex: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by pdftex) Any help for this problem ? This is weird. Peter -

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
I forgot to ask: does only pdftex cause problems or also metapost, luatex, xetex? It might help to know which of these programs still work. Mojca ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:00, Vnpenguin wrote: pdftex: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by pdftex) glibc.i686                                               2.5-42 Any help for this problem ? Yes, the easy answer would be upgrade your linux, but we probably want the

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/11/1 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: Yes, the easy answer would be upgrade your linux, but we probably want the binaries to run on slightly older machines as well. Indeed. Btw: The binaries from TL run on SUSE 10.1 (which has glibc 2.4). Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:47, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:00, Vnpenguin wrote: Hi, Just installed minimal on CentOS x86_64. The installation is ok, but when I try pdftex, there is error: pdftex pdftex: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by pdftex)

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Martin Schröder wrote: 2009/11/1 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: Yes, the easy answer would be upgrade your linux, but we probably want the binaries to run on slightly older machines as well. Indeed. Btw: The binaries from TL run on SUSE 10.1 (which has glibc 2.4). ah, so

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/11/1 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: I'm sweating ... trying to download Sarge DVD on this extra-slow connection. And then you remind me that I have a big cartoon box of original SuSE 7.2 right below my desk. (Maybe I should start considering throwing away a few things like

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/11/1 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: Martin Schröder wrote: Indeed. Btw: The binaries from TL run on SUSE 10.1 (which has glibc 2.4). ah, so maybe you can learn mojca a few tricks then; does this mean that tex live binaries have some built in magic that checks for libs? No, they are simply

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Vnpenguin
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:48, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: I forgot to ask: does only pdftex cause problems or also metapost, luatex, xetex? It might help to know which of these programs still work. mpost mpost: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Martin Schröder wrote: 2009/11/1 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: Martin Schröder wrote: Indeed. Btw: The binaries from TL run on SUSE 10.1 (which has glibc 2.4). ah, so maybe you can learn mojca a few tricks then; does this mean that tex live binaries have some built in magic that checks for libs?

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Vnpenguin
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:50, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:00, Vnpenguin wrote: pdftex: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by pdftex) glibc.i686                                               2.5-42 Any help for this

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/11/1 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: Martin Schröder wrote: No, they are simply build on old systems. Ask Peter. :-) ah, so they're static binaries Mostly. glibc is not statically linked. ldd Master/bin/x86_64-linux/pdftex libm.so.6 = /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x2b1771708000)

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/11/1 Vnpenguin vnpeng...@vnoss.org: My box CentOS 5.4 with all updates. What do you mean upgrade ? What glibc-version do you have? rpm -qi glibc? Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/11/1 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: Or maybe I was too fast. I don't find the exact timeline of libc development, so I have no idea how old your linux is. I thought that this failure was recent, but apparently it's not (the garden most probably has libc-2.8). For 32-bit

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Vnpenguin
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:30, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote: 2009/11/1 Vnpenguin vnpeng...@vnoss.org: My box CentOS 5.4 with all updates. What do you mean upgrade ? What glibc-version do you have? rpm -qi glibc? # yum list installed glibc\* Excluding Packages in global exclude list

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:24, Vnpenguin wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:50, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:00, Vnpenguin wrote: pdftex: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by pdftex) glibc.i686                                               2.5-42 Any

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Vnpenguin
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:59, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:24, Vnpenguin wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:50, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:00, Vnpenguin wrote: pdftex: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Vnpenguin
Hey, CentOS 5.4 just released on 21-May-2009 :-) If I have problem with ConTeXt on CentOS 5.4 so all users of RHEL 5.4 are the same: they can not! Correction: CentOS 5.4 was released on 21-Oct-2009. So it's not so old at all :-)

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 21:10, Vnpenguin wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:59, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Apparently it means that CentOS uses something like a several-years-span-back-in-time libc library and you cannot do much about it. That's no problem in general since you would not take a

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/11/1 Vnpenguin vnpeng...@vnoss.org: Correction: CentOS 5.4 was released on 21-Oct-2009. So it's not so old at all :-) Sorry, but it is. It's a free version of RHEL5, which was initially released in 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centos It you want something modern, use e.g. Fedora.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Vnpenguin, what kernel is running on your OS? If we set up a virtual machine for compiling binaries - does anyone have a suggesting what OS to take, so that it will remain compatible with as many x86_64 processors as possible? (Apparently glibc and kerner are the deciding factors; but it needs to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Vnpenguin
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 21:45, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: Vnpenguin, what kernel is running on your OS? The current kernel is: uname -r 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 If we set up a virtual machine for compiling binaries - does anyone have a suggesting what OS to take, so that

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Reinhard Kotucha
On 1 November 2009 Mojca Miklavec wrote: Vnpenguin, what kernel is running on your OS? If we set up a virtual machine for compiling binaries - does anyone have a suggesting what OS to take, so that it will remain compatible with as many x86_64 processors as possible? (Apparently glibc

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal: error pdftex on CentOS x86_64

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Nov 01 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: pdftex pdftex: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by pdftex) Any help for this problem ? This is weird. Peter - did you upgrade your linux in the meantime by any chance? (The update dates back to 17th October.) Hello,