Re: [Reduce-algebra-developers] Reduce snapshot 12 April

[Arthur N. <ac...@ca...>]

OK - a quick check at this end by several of us. I fired up an Ubuntu 
14.04 in  a VM. After I go "sudo apt-get install realpath" I can run both 
redcsl and redpsl and on my VM I do not see the complaint about Xft 
versions that you report. IN parallel with me checking that you will 
observe thatr Rainer has checked in changes that will (when we make the 
next snapshot) mean that things do not try to use "realpath" ans so shoudl 
be safe for people.
But could you please try installing realpath - and/or see the fix that 
Rainer just checke din and hand-edit that into your /usr/bin/red?sl 
scripts and check again.
  Arthur

On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Arthur Norman wrote:

> Thank you. Your prompt report will really help. We will not try again until 
> we have both had a chance to investigate these issues and see what other 
> ones others raise. If there are going to be serious delicacies about just 
> which versions of various shared libraries different versions of Linux use 
> that is going to be HORRID. So any investigation and advice you can give 
> will be useful. The Linux versions were built on an Ubuntu 15.10 that had 
> used "apt-get upgrade" to get it thoroughly current.
>
>  Arthur
>
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2016, Raymond Rogers wrote:
>
>> The problems seem minor in Ubuntu 14.xxxx
>> 
>> redcsl: the script file in /usr/bin/  doesn't point to the correct place.
>> The script is:
>> ----------
>> #! /bin/sh
>> 
>> MYDIR=`dirname $0`
>> CSLBUILDDIR=`realpath $MYDIR/../lib/reduce/cslbuild`
>> exec $CSLBUILDDIR/csl/reduce $*
>> 
>> ----------------------------
>> Whereas the real binary location is:
>> /usr/lib/reduce/cslbuild/csl
>> ---------------------------------
>> 
>> Almost hit the target but not quite :)
>> Although when I do:
>>  /usr/lib/reduce/cslbuild/csl/reduce
>> everything seems to work but I get:
>> "Expected Xft library version 20302 or greater; was 20301"
>> I will look into this.
>> 
>> 
>> redpsl has different problems; but a core one is that bpsl  can not
>> allocate memory on my system.  In addition the script in /usr/bin refers
>> to the variable "realpath" without defining it.
>> 
>> Ray
>> 
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