[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.0 released

[Khaled Hosny]

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 <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.

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).

Regards,
Khaled