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BOINC for TC
thane:
I think some of the distros curaga mentioned do provide BOINC, but they compiled their own packages. I'm starting with the "Berkeley installer" one from the BOINC project which is supposed to be generic. An old version of it did work on TCL but recent ones require libraries that aren't readily available. I was hoping that I could just add the missing libraries and was making some progress there, but the requirement for a different version of an existing library is a bit of a showstopper. Hmmph.
Rich:
Hi thane
I think this pretty much answers the question:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=7703
thane:
Oops. I did look at the BOINC message boards but somehow overlooked the most relevant thread! Unfortunately it pretty much says what we already figured.
I guess my next step is to see if there's an older version of BOINC that I can get working. If not I'll live without it.
Thanks to everyone for your help!
Thane
AmatCoder:
BOINC building process fails if you use the "Berkeley installer". That contains already-compiled files (not compatible with TC - possibly compiled on Ubuntu 12.04) which require libc > 2.14.
And you can not simply replace libc...That could break which was compiled against former libc (means: the whole system)
But BOINC works if you build it from sources...All dependencies are in repository.
See: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SoftwarePrereqsUnix (Note that 'server' build is not needed...)
thane:
OK, it looks like an older version of BOINC for Linux (6.12.34) does work with the /lib/libc.so.6 library version that TCL has. I had to download some additional TCL extensions (and other libraries TCL doesn't provide) to get the libraries BOINC needs, but it seems to be running. It's late here, will give a list of the extensions and libraries tomorrow.
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