[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.0 released

[Zdenek Wagner]

2013/3/14 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
> 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).
>
Even CentOS 5.0 has gcc 4.1.1, do you think it is enough?

> Regards,
> Khaled
>
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