From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23857 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Linux binaries Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:27:12 +0100 Message-ID: <438ADB80.6020307@wxs.nl> References: <438AC440.40203@capdm.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133173947 17673 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2005 10:32:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 28 11:32:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EggIE-00021B-5h for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:31:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0759127D6; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:31:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04021-02; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:31:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEAEA12796; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:27:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8610912796 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:27:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03697-03 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:27:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8371112778 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:27:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 5305 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:32:06 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <438AC440.40203@capdm.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:23857 Archived-At: Duncan Hothersall wrote: >I just foolishly downloaded the 2005-11-16 linuxtex.zip minimal linux >distribution and copied it on top of my previous one, and I now discover >that the binaries are linked to a more recent version of glibc than I >have on my linux box. Eek. > > indeed annoying (and depressing); it also means that you cannot copy an old tree to a new linux installation (this is what i found out recently); on windows, one does not have this problem (since it carries previous versions of libraries); i don't know how sensitive macosx is for updates (maybe we should put a set of statically linked binaries someplace; a kind of archive) >I will clearly need to update the linux machine in due course, but does >anyone (a) know if the binaries from the previous zip will work as a >stop-gap, and (b) happen to have a copy of the previous linuxtex.zip (or >the binaries from it) available for download? > > > yes, you can use the old binaries, no problem; hm, a copy of previous binaries ... i can make a zip of an old tree Hans