[GAP Forum] Error with rsync installation

[Gordon Royle]

On 25/10/2012, at 3:53 PM, Frank Lübeck wrote:

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.

OK, thanks.

I shall forward this directly to my system administrator.

Unfortunately I have so little knowledge of the "nuts and bolts" of linking, compiling, static, dynamic etc, that while I grasp the general meaning of what you said, I have no actual idea of how to "install a 32 bit version of the standard C library", nor where to look for it. :-)

However the system is a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution so I am surprised it doesn't come with the bits it needs. When I compiled from scratch instead (configure; make;), no complaints were raised, but perhaps it made only the 64-bit version ??


Thanks again

Gordon



Professor Gordon Royle
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Western Australia
Gordon.Royle at uwa.edu.au<mailto:Gordon.Royle at uwa.edu.au>