[Scilab-Dev] Release of Scilab - Beta 3

[Stéphane Mottelet]

Pierre MARECHAL a écrit :
> Stéphane Mottelet a écrit :
>> Pierre MARECHAL a écrit :
>>> Hello,
>>>       We just released the third beta version of Scilab.
>>>       Misc information about this version:
>>> http://www.scilab.org/download/index_download.php?page=5.0-beta-3
>>>       List of changes:
>>> http://www.scilab.org/download/index_download.php?page=CHANGES_5.0-beta-3 
>>>
>>>       The release notes (short bug list... and of course not full):
>>> http://www.scilab.org/download/index_download.php?page=RELEASE_NOTES_5.0-beta-3 
>>>
>>>
>>> Pierre
>>>
>> I am sorry, but for people like me, it is very hard to test this 
>> version under Linux. If there
>> are some minimum prerequisites, please precise them. When I am trying 
>> to test
>> the 5.0-beta3 on this machine :
>>
>> Linux marguerite 2.4.20-8smp #1 SMP Thu Mar 13 17:45:54 EST 2003 i686 
>> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> I have the following error :
>>
>> /home/mottelet/scilab-5.0-beta-3/bin/scilab-bin:
>> /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by 
>> /home/mottelet/scilab-5.0-beta-3/lib/scilab/libgfortran.so.2)
>>
>> What is the minimum required version of the libc  ?
>>
>> S.
>>
>> P.S. : sorry, it is not easy for everyone to access a recent/up to 
>> date Linux machine...
> Hi Stéphane,
>
> This problem is a known bug 
> (http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3131). We are now trying 
> to disable the link to
> this specific version of the glibc.
>
> Which Linux distribution do you use ?
>
> Pierre
>
It is a redhat9 (sometimes it is almost impossible to stop a (fairly) 
working
server to upgrade the distro...)

[mottelet at marguerite mottelet]$ /lib/libc.so.6
GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.2, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

S.

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Stéphane Mottelet
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées
Université de Technologie de Compiègne
http://www.lmac.utc.fr/~mottelet