[GAP Forum] Error with rsync installation

[Frank Lübeck]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:11:56AM +0800, Gordon Royle wrote:
> I got this error when using rsync
> 
> Creating new workspace.
> Using gapsync/CreateWorkspace.sh ...
>       (You can customize this by copying gapsync/CreateWorkspace.sh to
>        local/bin/CreateWorkspace and editing this copy.)
> gapsync/CreateWorkspace.sh: bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-default32/gap: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
> Also creating new workspace for 64-bit version ...
> Using gapsync/CreateWorkspace.sh x86_64 ...
>       (You can customize this by copying gapsync/CreateWorkspace.sh to
>        local/bin/CreateWorkspace64 or local/bin/CreateWorkspace
>        and editing this copy.)
> 
> 
> The 64 bit version appears to work, but the 32-bit version doesn't.
> 
> System details:
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux ECM-MATHS-015.uniwa.uwa.edu.au 2.6.32-279.2.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 5 21:08:58 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Dear Gordon, dear Forum,

From this I guess that you cannot start any (dynamically linked) 32-bit
application on that machine. 

The requirements for the 32-bit GAP executable are very small, you just
need to install the 32-bit version of the standard C library (with the
corresponding linker).

Your Linux distribution should contain a package for that, called something
like libc6-i386 or libc6:i386 or glibc.i686 or similar. I thought that
this would be installed by default on almost any x86_64 Linux machine.

Best regards,
  Frank
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