Racket 7.5 does not run on Cent OS cloud computers

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Eduardo Costa

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Dec 9, 2019, 5:00:37 PM12/9/19
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A couple of years ago, I was unable to run Racket on my webpage. I complained on this forum, and the developers fixed the issue. Things worked fine until version 7.3, when the old problem reappeared. Here is what happens:

```
advo...@advogadosmg.org [~]# racket-7.5.0.10/bin/racket

racket-7.5.0.10/bin/racket: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by racket-7.5.0.10/bin/racket)
```

The old version works:

```
advo...@advogadosmg.org [~/public_html/rkt]# racket/bin/racket
Welcome to Racket v7.3.
> (+ (* 3 4) (* 5 6))
42
```

Could people in charge fix the problem again?

Paulo Matos

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Dec 16, 2019, 2:59:28 AM12/16/19
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Since nobody has gotten back to you yet - what is this CentOS cloud computers? 
However, let me assume the problem is not centos or cloud computing but instead that you are trying to run a pre-compiled racket version on an OS with an old glibc.
Well, you can build your own racket there for your current libc version - have you tried that? Did you face any problems?

Paulo Matos

Matthew Flatt

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Dec 16, 2019, 10:46:37 AM12/16/19
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> On Monday, 9 December 2019 23:00:37 UTC+1, edu500ac wrote:
> >
> > A couple of years ago, I was unable to run Racket on my webpage. I
> > complained on this forum, and the developers fixed the issue. Things worked
> > fine until version 7.3, when the old problem reappeared. Here is what
> > happens:
> >
> > ```
> > advo...@advogadosmg.org <javascript:> [~]# racket-7.5.0.10/bin/racket
> >
> > racket-7.5.0.10/bin/racket: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not
> > found (required by racket-7.5.0.10/bin/racket)
> > ```
> >
> > The old version works:
> >
> > ```
> > advo...@advogadosmg.org <javascript:> [~/public_html/rkt]#
> > racket/bin/racket
> > Welcome to Racket v7.3.
> > > (+ (* 3 4) (* 5 6))
> > 42
> > ```
> >
> > Could people in charge fix the problem again?

Probably the reason for the difference in v7.5 is that we were forced
to upgrade from Debian 7 to Debian 8 for the Linux builds. I don't
think we can easily switch back, unfortunately.


Matthew

Bruce O'Neel

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Dec 16, 2019, 11:18:01 AM12/16/19
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Hi Edurado,

You could just download the linux source + built packages, and then

cd racket-version
cd src
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=where_do_you_want_to_install_racket
make
make install

will build it for you.   On one of my systems  configure takes less than 10 seconds, make takes about 4 minutes, and a make install takes just over a minute.

Give it a shot and see if that fixes your problem.

cheers

bruce




16 December 2019 16:46 Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> On Monday, 9 December 2019 23:00:37 UTC+1, edu500ac wrote:
> >
> > A couple of years ago, I was unable to run Racket on my webpage. I
> > complained on this forum, and the developers fixed the issue. Things worked
> > fine until version 7.3, when the old problem reappeared. Here is what
> > happens:
> >
> > ```
> > advo...@advogadosmg.org [~]# racket-7.5.0.10/bin/racket
> >
> > racket-7.5.0.10/bin/racket: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not
> > found (required by racket-7.5.0.10/bin/racket)
> > ```
> >
> > The old version works:
> >
> > ```
> > advo...@advogadosmg.org [~/public_html/rkt]#
> > racket/bin/racket
> > Welcome to Racket v7.3.
> > > (+ (* 3 4) (* 5 6))
> > 42
> > ```
> >
> > Could people in charge fix the problem again?

Probably the reason for the difference in v7.5 is that we were forced
to upgrade from Debian 7 to Debian 8 for the Linux builds. I don't
think we can easily switch back, unfortunately.


Matthew

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