2013/3/13 Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]>: > 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. > Mojca > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
