On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:42:39AM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > 2013/3/14 Khaled Hosny <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:20:15AM -0300, George N. White III wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Zdenek Wagner > >> <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > >> > 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. > >> > > >> > >> 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. > > > > Building from the tarball (or better the release-0.9999.0 branch on git) > > should not require having autotools, but you still need a recent enough > > gcc (3.x known not to work for HarfBuzz). > > > Even CentOS 5.0 has gcc 4.1.1, do you think it is enough?
I don't know for sure, 4.4 is the lowest version used successfully AFAIK. Regards, Khaled -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
