[8292] in testers
debathena natty - first observations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Jul 6 19:38:45 2011
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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Once I got my VM fixed up things seem to be running pretty well. I did
some quick testing of most of the major Third Party apps.
First thing I noticed was the time zone defaulted to Pacific time for
some reason. It wanted to do an apt-file update, which I agreed to. I've
seen that before. On to the applications:
Matlab runs OK, but one of their scripts complains about not
finding /lib64/libc.so.6. I understand that natty rearranges library
locations, and also that 32-64 bit multiarch library installations are
going away- this is going to bite various Third Party locker setups as
I'm seeing already. This one should be easily fixable by editing the
script.
xstata complains about missing libtiff.so.3. Other tiff libs are there
and I verified that I can work around this with symlinks and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
R was missing libgfortran.so.3 and it doesn't look like it's installed.
I presume it's in debathena-thirdparty; the libgfortran3 package works
and I believe we already used that in lucid.
CHEMKIN was missing ksh; as above, I believe we already have that in
thirdparty. There were additional problems however with various scripts
failing; from a quick look, it seems like syntax has changed in some
utilities.
The Cambridge Structural Database applications complained about
missing /lib/libc.so.6 but worked otherwise. Should be easy to work
around.
freewrl had problems with mixed up 32/64 bit library invocations, but I
think I can recompile that from source or at least work around the
issues.
texmacs was missing libguile.so.12 but I can work around that by
recompiling it from source (I've not been using the binary package for a
variety of reasons).
Allegro Common Lisp is missing xemacs (used as a helper application). It
seems to be missing and we should add that back in- I don't recall if
it's in thirdparty.
That's about it- lots of other apps work just fine with no problems.
Alex
