[daip] AIPS Binary Install Problem: Requiring A Higher Glibc Version {External} {External}

[Haochen_Wang]

Hi Eric,

Thank you for your response, I'll try to use 31DEC23. 

Sincerely,

Haochen Wang


> -----原始邮件-----
> 发件人: "Eric Greisen" <egreisen at nrao.edu>
> 发送时间:2024-10-31 12:15:40 (星期四)
> 收件人: daip <daip at nrao.edu>, Haochen_Wang <hcw062 at mail.ustc.edu.cn>
> 抄送: daip <daip at nrao.edu>
> 主题: Re: [daip] AIPS Binary Install Problem: Requiring A Higher Glibc Version {External}
> 
> For 31DEC24 we were forced to move to RedHat 8.  RedHat 7 is no longer supported and is a serious security   risk.  You might consider that for your system as well.  The 31DEC23 binary aips was kept (frozen) at RedHat 7.  You could consider that version.  I do not know about Dcker and would be curious if there is some way that that could be made to work.
> 
> Really though you are using truely obsolete system presumable wide open to hackers.
> 
> Eric Greisen
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 8:29 PM
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> Subject: [daip] AIPS Binary Install Problem: Requiring A Higher Glibc Version {External}
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> 
> Dear AIPS developers,
> 
> 
> I've met a problem when trying to install AIPS on a CentOS 7 server, and FILAIP can't run:
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> 
> /home/wanghc/aips/31DEC24/LNX64/LOAD/FILAIP.EXE: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /home/wanghc/aips/31DEC24/LNX64/LOAD/FILAIP.EXE)
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> /home/wanghc/aips/31DEC24/LNX64/LOAD/FILAIP.EXE: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.25' not found (required by /home/wanghc/aips/31DEC24/LNX64/LIBR/INTELCMP/libbsd.so.0)
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> 
> The glibc version on the server is 2.17, and it seems to me that the update of glibc is quite impossible if not installing a newer version of Linux (inappropriate for a group server).
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> 
> I really appreciate it if you could help me with this problem. Maybe I should use docker, can AIPS work well with docker?
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> Sincerely,
> 
> 
> Haochen Wang