[tex-live] luajittex glibc version and centos 5

Jared Szechy jared.szechy at brilligent.com
Tue Jul 5 16:24:46 CEST 2016


>From what I can tell this is the breaking change...

https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/texlive/linked_scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl?r1=40768&r2=41545

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Jared Szechy <jared.szechy at brilligent.com>
wrote:

> I'm having trouble installing texlive on a centos 5 system. I have been
> installing the latest version just fine on centos 5 vm's for the past 3
> years.
>
> It looks like something in fmtutil has changed that broke the
> --no-error-if-no-engine flag.
>
> I am now getting the following output:
>
> fmtutil [INFO]: /opt/texlive/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdfetex.fmt installed.
> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luajittex -ini   -jobname=luajittex
> -progname=luajittex luatex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
> fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
> fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 1
> fmtutil [INFO]: Successfully rebuilt formats: 12
> fmtutil [INFO]: Failed to build: 1 (luajittex/luajittex)
> fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 14
> fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 1
> ./install-tl: fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-engine=luajittex,mfluajit --all
> failed:
>
>
> I used to get this output:
>
> fmtutil [INFO]: /opt/texlive/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdfetex.fmt installed.
> fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luajittex -ini   -jobname=luajittex
> -progname=luajittex luatex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
> fmtutil [ERROR]: `luajittex -ini   -jobname=luajittex -progname=luajittex
> luatex.ini </dev/null' failed (no luajittex.fmt)
> fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 1
> fmtutil [INFO]: Successfully rebuilt formats: 12
> fmtutil [INFO]: Failed to build: 1 (luajittex/luajittex)
> fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 14
> fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 0
>
> I know the root of this is that the glibc version of the shipped luajittex
> binary is too new for centos5. It would be great if texlive could build
> their linux binaries on an older systems so they would work with older
> glibc versions.
>
> At the very least fmtutil needs to be fixed so that it doesn't fail
> anymore. I see mention of a '--strict' option in the output, I'm not sure
> where that is coming from either.
>
> --
> Jared Szechy
> *Brilligent Solutions, Inc.*
>
> Office: 937.879.4148 x1007
> Fax: 937.879.4158
>



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Jared Szechy
*Brilligent Solutions, Inc.*

Office: 937.879.4148 x1007
Fax: 937.879.4158
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