[tex-live] dvipdfmx on CentOS 5.6 (glibc 2.5)

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/4/14 Karen Ellrick <osakawebbie at gmail.com>:
> Strange, I have just tried dvipdfmx from TL2011 on GentOS 4.7 and 5.3
> and I managed to process a simple DVI.
>
> Perhaps you weren't using the x86_64-linux version - the 32-bit version
> probably expects an earlier version of glibc.
>
I do use x86_64 version:
which dvipdfmx
/usr/local/texlive/current/bin/x86_64-linux/dvipdfmx

(current is a symlink to 2011)
>
> Is there a build of dvipdfmx that works with glibc 2.5?  Or do I need to
> build my own?  (If so, please give me some instructions - I can do simple
> "configure", "make", and "make install" if the configuration files exist,
> but if it is much more difficult than that, I'll need help.)  Thanks!
>
> I tried to build the whole TL (without xindy) from the svn sources. It
> always worked. Just run Build in the Build/source directory
>
> Okay, I got that and ran Build/source/Build.  (I have no idea what "without
> xindy" means, though.)  It says it finished.  According to
> http://www.tug.org/texlive/ I should now have a new directory called
> Build/source/inst with a bin/i686pc-linux directory that I can copy files
> from to the real usable spot.  But all the  I have a new directory called
> Build/source/Work which doesn't have any directory in it like inst or bin or
> anything else obviously useful at this stage:
>
> [root at vps-1011517-5697 Work]# ll
> total 1428
> drwxr-sr-x  3 root root   4096 Apr 14 22:19 auxdir
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 947383 Apr 14 22:44 build.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  59461 Apr 14 22:19 config.log
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  72626 Apr 14 22:19 config.status
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root      2 Apr 14 22:44 exitstatus.txt
> drwxr-sr-x 15 root root   4096 Apr 14 22:31 libs
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 298872 Apr 14 22:19 libtool
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  32920 Apr 14 22:19 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   2030 Apr 14 22:19 subsubdir-conf.cmd
> drwxr-sr-x  4 root root   4096 Apr 14 22:20 texk
> drwxr-sr-x 12 root root   4096 Apr 14 22:44 utils
>
> Can you tell me the next step, or point me to a webpage or documentation
> file that applies to this situation?
>
> Thanks,
> Karen



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