fp install fails, "no version information available" error and install is aborted.

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Thu Mar 24 07:13:13 PDT 2016


On 3/24/2016 12:40 AM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:31:22PM -0400, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> It also looks like the libc is too old, that it's pre-2.7.  If you
>> do this, you'll see what version(s) it supports:
>>
>>      strings /lib64/libc.so.6 | grep GLIBC_
>>
>> Note that 2.7 is from October 2007.  How old is your Linux?
>>
>> On my 64-bit Linux, I get:
>
> I see nothing on the fP Tech website which dictates library versions,
> vendors/distributions, distribution numbers, etc., for anything other than
> libtermcap.
[...]

fPTech doesn't "dictate" library versions -- gcc does.

Perhaps you've never built a binary on Linux using gcc?  I just compiled 
"hello world", and even it requires a specific glibc version or later.

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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