On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:02, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> >
> > On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >
> >> This has nothing to do with Hans' beta. See
> >>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/48892
> >> but I'm clueless. The binaries have been compiled on Debian Etch. Does
> >> pdfTeX work on your machine?
> >>
> >> Mojca
> >
> > Hi Mojca,
> >
> > I usually run a luatex binary I have compiled myself, but when I simply
> > tried to run the script to update the minimals, I got the same error as
> > Luigi, on Debian lenny.
> > Etch is really dated now, any chance to update?
>
> To be honest, it was the other way around: I was trying hard to find a
> chance to compile on *as old machine as possible*. Compiling on
> cutting-edge linux would be much more trivial than compiling on Debian
> Etch, but then Luigi comes and starts complaining that the binaries
> compiled on Taco's server (that runs a reasonably new linux) don't
> work on his distribution.
>
on one of my server -- my laptop is ok .
It's a bit messy situation , I understand.


>
> Since Taco promissed to change this library dependency this week, I
> would prefer to wait on his patch.

me too  -- I'm sure that this will disappear .

>
> On the other hand, since luatex is already almost-broken anyway,

???

> it
> might make less demage if we make it work on recent distributions than
> if we make it work on older distributions. I leave that decision to
> Taco.
>
I vote for recent distro (just my one cent )

-- 
luigi