[GRASSLIST:3990] Re: GLIBC_2.2 not found

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:22:43PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> [CC'd to GRASS5]
> 
> Steve Kimball wrote:
> 
> > I'm also runnig Red Hat 6.2 and got
> >   r.in.ascii: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.2` not found (required
> > for r.in.ascii)
> 
> You would either have to install glibc 2.2 (RH6.2 uses glibc 2.1), or
> obtain a binary package which was intended for RH6.2 (or another
> distribution which uses glibc 2.1).
> 
> Programs which were compiled for RH7.x will almost never work on
> RH6.x, due to the different version of glibc.
> 
> Hmm. If this is the package from grass.itc.it, i.e.
> 
> http://grass.itc.it/grass5/binary/linux/grass5.0.0pre3_i686-pc-linux-gnu_bin.tar.gz
> 
> then the README (which claims that it requires glibc 2.1) is
> incorrect.

I have fixed the README, it should show up by tomorrow.

Markus