On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Mark Taylor wrote:
>
> > However, there is a regression issue with the native libraries.
> > Testing a build done on the nanahope branch fails to load the native
> > libraries (JNIAST, JNIHDS) with the error:
> >
> > java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: couldn't load library jniast:
> > /data/andromeda1/scratch/starjava/lib/i386/libjniast.so:
> > /data/andromeda1/scratch/starjava/lib/i386/libjniast.so: requires glibc 2.5
> > or later dynamic linker
> >
> > on my admittedly rather ancient OS. SPLAT therefore doesn't run.
> >
> > Previous versions of these native libs (e.g. a build on the current
> > trunk) don't suffer this problem, so it can and I think should be
> > fixed.
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> maybe not. We don't release STARJAVA as a separate item to the rest of
> Starlink, so it's reasonable that the binary requirements of STARJAVA are the
> same as that for the rest of the associated release.
OK, point taken. In that case I don't insist that this gets fixed
up for the nanahope release.
> Clearly for our purposes, outside of the Starlink releases, that isn't true
> and the binaries on trunk should be as backwardly compatible as possible. Now
> we have a stable AST it is a good time to also make that happen. I've got
> access to some older systems than they have at JAC, so am trying to do that
> (sadly the main machine involved keeps crashing, so I'm behind schedule).
thanks, that would be good. To avoid version confusion, I would like
to make a TOPCAT release in TOPCAT's normal release sequence which
corresponds (at least in terms of functionality and sources) to
nanahope, and for that I need a starjava which is as widely
usable as possible - one of the TOPCAT installation options is a
full starjava tar/zip ball. So if you could give me a shout when
the native libs are in good shape (and what branch/trunk to find them
on), I'll build and release then.
cheers
Mark
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