On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Christoph Best wrote:
Greg Couch writes:
You don't say which version of linux you're using, but I have seen that error on 64-bit Debian Linux systems (so the same problem would occur with Ubuntu). If you were running 64-bit Red Hat or SuSe Linux, it should have worked. We are investigating an alternative compliation environment
Debian "Etch" Stable still uses a 2.3.6 libc, and it seems that in the installer executable there are symbol references from 2.4. Curiously, the other executables and libraries don't seem to require 2.4, just 2.3. The only symbol from 2.4 is __stack_chk_failed, which might indicate that something there was compiled with the -fstack-protector (Stack overflow protection) feature, which is only supported from gcc-4.1 and glibc 2.4.
Debian "Sid" Unstable or "Lenny" Testing (which are quite stable despite the name, "testing" being more stable than "unstable") have 2.6 libcs. Ubuntu switched to a 2.4 libc with the Edgy release (6.10, i.e. October 2006). On our AMD64 Ubuntuns, Chimera 1.2422 runs fine.
-Christoph
That is great news! I double-checked the binaries and you're right, only the installer requires Glibc 2.4. It's not clear why that is since we don't compile with -fstack-protector. I'll investigate further. - Greg