[tex-live] [XeTeX] TeXLive Pretest - XeTeX segfaults on LInux 64
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Jul 13 04:26:00 CEST 2010
On 12 July 2010 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Le 12/07/2010 10:21, ulrik.vieth at arcor.de a écrit :
> > I wouldn't assume that the problem is with dynamic linking per se.
>
> The crash has probably nothing to do with dynamic linking
> indeed. Reinhard was replying to this paragraph:
>
> > Would it be a feasible idea to supply Linux32 binaries for XeTeX
> > on Linux64 platforms? Would this work at all or would this
> > require additional infrastructure (e.g. 32 bit versions of
> > libraries)?
>
> so I think his answer is that it is *not* doable to ship 32 bit
> XeTeX on LinUX64, since the user would need a 32-bit version of the
> dynamically linked libraries.
Yes, this is exactly what I meant. Furthermore, consider that TL
currently supports five 64-bit Unix platforms and that one of them,
'x86_64-linux', stands for zillions of Linux distributions. Finding
out whether all required 32-bit libraries are availabe everywhere is
nearly impossible. I'm not even aware of all Linux distributions.
Regards,
Reinhard
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