[tex-live] dvipdfmx on CentOS 5.6 (glibc 2.5)

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/4/19 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> On Mi, 18 Apr 2012, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> >> /home/zw/tmp/dvipdfmx: /lib64/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not
>> >> found (required by /home/zw/tmp/dvipdfmx)
>> >>
>> >> Thus it seems that dvipdfmx works on my computer because I have not
>> >> run "tlmgr update" for a long time. There is only one remaining
>> >
>> > How is this connected? tlmgr does not change any binaries till now,
>> > AFAIS. It is only about the compilation problem.
>> >
>> Karen sent me her dvipdfmx, diff said that it differs from mine.
>
> Ahh, she did rebuild her dvipdfmx from source, so of course it is changed.
> And yes, there is an updated dvipdfmx in tlptexlive, but it is the
> same as from current svn sources, no difference.
>
I thought Kare sent me her original dvipdfmx, not what she built. Her
dvipdfmx does not work on my computer, it complains about missing
libc.so.6 which is exactly the same error message as she posted at her
first mail.

> tlptexlive *only* adds pxdvi and pmpost, nothing else.
> (plus updated binaries from current svn, but no patches for current svn
> besides the above)
>
>> Simple "dvipdfmx --version" works on my computer, if I do the same
>> with Karen's version, I get the same error message as Karen. We both
>> use x86_64 binaries.
>
> So your dvipdfmx works on your but not on her.
> Her dvipdfmx works on her but not on your computer.
>
> Hmmm, what a pain.
>
Just to be clear: dvipdfmx from TL (no extra repositories) works fine
even on obsolete CentOS 4.7
Compilation of the binaries from TL svn on CentOS 5.3 works fine.

> I can only think that this comes from indirect library dependencies,
> one lib is ldd-ed and requires in turn another lib..
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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