From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2bRY-0003yL-V4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:15:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j79LE1Q8014927; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:14:01 GMT Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j79L8wDK017697 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:08:58 GMT Received: from engr.colostate.edu (goku.engr.colostate.edu [129.82.224.16]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j79L9UD307324 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:09:30 -0600 Received: from [129.82.224.6] (vegeta.engr.colostate.edu [129.82.224.6]) by engr.colostate.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id j79L9U321375 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 15:09:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <42F91B77.4020905@colostate.edu> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:09:11 -0600 From: CJ Keist Organization: Colorado State University User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo glibc-2.3.2 install help References: <42F91311.5030407@colostate.edu> <42F91AB5.3070207@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42F91AB5.3070207@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 49d95d67-4fcc-46ec-a3d9-23399ef92005 X-Archives-Hash: 84e4cb026b0321b61c03cdc5fa06e02f Yes, Running Matlab on current release will just core dump. Also tried the fix on Matlab site where you modify the .matlab7rc.sh file. So I'm thinking it has to be a problem with the new glibc on current releases. This is on Fedora 3 and 4 as well. Fedora 2 sort of works but not well. Zac Medico wrote: > CJ Keist wrote: > >> Hello all, >> First time user of Gentoo. We're wanting to run Matlab R14 SP2 >> 64bit mode. According to Matlab site they support the Linux kernel >> 2.6.x and glibc-2.3.2. Non of the current linux distro (i.e. Fedora) >> has that old of glibc. So looking at Gentoo thinking I can build the >> Gentoo system based on glibc-2.3.2. >> I'm doing a stage 1 install, and not quite understanding this >> portage tree stuff. I have tried to put the following in >> /etc/portage/package.mask: >> >> >=sys-libs/glibc-2.3.3 >> >> and /etc/portage/package.unmask >> >> =sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r12 >> >> but bootstrapping the system is failing with deps on glibc newer than >> what I want. Am I going about this wrong???? >> > > Have people reported any problems with newer versions of glibc? If not, > you should at least try a current stable version. > > If you want to run an old version of glibc then it's probably easier if > you use an old portage tree. Maybe you can use an old gentoo release cd. > > Zac > -- C. J. Keist Email: cj.keist@engr.colostate.edu UNIX/Network Manager Phone: 970-491-0630 Engineering Network Services Fax: 970-491-5569 College of Engineering, CSU Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1301 All I want is a chance to prove 'Money can't buy happiness' -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list