[daip] MNJ library problem?

[Wes Young]

Well any old libc won't work if the newer one is not backward compatible, which is likely the case here.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu


On Aug 5, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Robert Mutel wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>> 
>> Our 31DEC10 AIPs suddenly stopped working, with the error msg:
>> 
>> Starting up 31DEC10 AIPS with normal priority
>> Begin the one true AIPS number 1 (release of 31DEC10) at priority =   0
>> AIPS1: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by AIPS1)
>> 
>> Our libc.so.6 points to glibc version  2.3.4:
>> 
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      13 Jul 22 10:08 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.4.so*
>> 
>> I wonder if the large MNJ a few days ago removed support for 2.3.4?
>> 
>> Robert
> 
> Our system guy is perplexed about this 2.4 requirement since in fact on 
> dave (the machine that does the link edits) we have 2.5 not 2.4.
> 
> cd $LOAD
> ldd AIPS.EXE
> 
> only shows libc.so.6 so one would expect any old libc to do okay.  We 
> did have a compile problem in C complaining about GNU versions and one 
> with link edit with a crazy error message when we tried to use 9.0, our 
> older compiler version.  But nothing explicitly about libc.
> 
> Eric Greisen
> 
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