[scilab-Users] Running scilab 5.0.3 using an older version of glibc

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le jeudi 05 février 2009 à 03:00 -0800, Kevin Cristobal a écrit :
> Hi, 
> 
> I was able to run scilab 4.1.2 in my centOS pc. However, when I
> attempted to run scilab 5.0.3, this message comes out:
> 
> 
> [root at medgrid scilab-5.0.3]# ./bin/scilab
> [root at medgrid
> scilab-5.0.3]# /root/scilab/scilab-5.0.3/bin/scilab-bin: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /root/scilab/scilab-5.0.3/lib/scilab/libgfortran.so.3)

Normally, we fixed this bug in the nightly build (both master & 5.1).
This bug is due to a symbol added by the compiler (stack-protector)
which is only defined in the glibc version >= 2.4.

Sylvestre