[racket] Racket 6.0 does not work

John Clements asked about a Debian version the other day. Robby Findler
pointed him to: http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/snapshots/

I suggest downloading the Debian Wheezy version which I guess would
have the glibc version you need.


-- 
Manfred


On Wed, 5 Mar 2014 18:03:26 -0300
Junia Magellan <junnia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a professor of Computer Science in a technological institute. My
> research is comparing productivity of computer languages using
> Measurement Theory. I think you already know that from my previous
> posts. The point is that Racket 6.0 installer is very unfriendly.
> Well, it is almost like the installer of Racket 6.0. The only
> difference is that Racket 6.0 does not work.
> 
> I asked about 8 students to install Racket 6.0. Nobody succeeded.
> 100% of failures. I tried the installation myself, and failed. I will
> give an example.  I am using Cloud computing, and cannot modify the
> machine. For instance, I cannot install a new operating system to
> satisfy the requirements of Racket 6.0. Given these constraints, the
> situation is the following:
> 
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
> 
> vendor_id    : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family    : 21
> model        : 2
> model name    : AMD Opteron 63xx class CPU
> stepping    : 0
> microcode    : 0x1000065
> cpu MHz        : 2299.909
> cache size    : 512 KB
> fpu        : yes
> fpu_exception    : yes
> cpuid level    : 13
> wp        : yes
> bogomips    : 4599.81
> TLB size    : 1024 4K pages
> clflush size    : 64
> cache_alignment    : 64
> address sizes    : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> 
> This particular machine has 16 cores, and the kernel is:
> 
> uname -mrs
> Linux 3.2.52 x86_64
> 
> When I try to run Racket 5.36, everything works perfectly well. Here
> is an example:
> 
> # mv racket racket60
> # mv racket-old/ racket
> # racket/bin/racket -il xrepl
> Welcome to Racket v5.3.6.
> -> (* 3 4 5)
> 60
> -> (exit)
> 
> Now, let us see what happens with Racket 6.0:
> 
> # mv racket racket-old
> # mv racket60 racket
> # mv racket60 racket
> # racket/bin/racket
> racket/bin/racket: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found
> (required by racket/bin/racket)
> #
> 
> I would like you to understand that most people are not PhD in
> Computer Science. 90% of people want to run out of the box
> applications. Even programmers don't have in depth knowledge about
> the workings of computers and operating systems. I don't know why
> Racket 6.0 needs libc.so.6, or GLIBC_2.14. I just want to run
> statistics programs written in Racket from an Internet page.
> 
> I will give you another example about Racket 6.0. There are a lot of
> people that use a text editor called Vim+mzscheme. This text editor
> has a lot of applications about Rasch measurement, that are used by
> people in the business of education. I mean, people who work in
> things like SAT, GRE, USMLE, and equivalent activities in countries
> around the world. These programs test students, and the processed
> scores are often used by admission offices to accept applicants. I
> happen to work with this kind of programs.
> 
> Installing Vim+mzscheme is a nuisance, since people must compile
> Racket from sources, and Vim from sources. In Windows, few people
> succeed in performing the task. The same is true in the case of OS-X.
> I am talking about Racket 5.36, for I don't know a single person who
> installed vim+mzscheme with Racket 6.0.
> 
> What I need is a version of Racket that work right out of the box, at
> least for OS-X, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Linux. I also need a fast
> editor, like Vim.
> 
> Well members of this list, here is what I am going to do. I will
> download Bigloo, learn how to use it, hire a programmer to write
> array operations in Bigloo, translate a lot of programs from Racket
> and Common Lisp to Bigloo, and start from zero, as in Edith Piaf's
> song.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> * Junia Magalhães Rocha*
> 
> Doutoranda em Inteligência Artificial - Engenharia Elétrica - UFU
> Mestre em Inteligência Artificial - Ciência da Computação - UFU
> 
> Docente do IFTM - Campus Avançado Patrocínio
> 
> Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3659680417351721
>