[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.0 released

[George N. White III]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2013/3/13 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>:
> > 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.   Is it
realistic to expect that TL2013
binaries that use opentype math work on GLIBC 2.5 systems?

I won't get back to the RHEL 5.9 machine until April, by which time I'm
hoping we will upgrade to RHEL 6 (waiting on a vendor to support RHEL 6).

-- 
George N. White III
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