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   Anton Ertl to Buzz McCool   
   Re: gforth stopped working   
   27 Aug 25 16:42:09   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Buzz McCool  writes:   
   >Well I have Debian >= Bullseye per https://gforth.org/ , but the latest   
   bleeding edge gforth isn't satisfied.   
   >   
   >buzz@mccool:~$ /usr/bin/gforth   
   >/usr/bin/gforth: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.39' not   
   found (required by /usr/bin/gforth)   
   >/usr/bin/gforth: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not   
   found (required by /usr/bin/gforth)   
   >   
   >buzz@mccool:~$ ls -la /usr/bin/gf*   
   >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     27  /usr/bin/gforth -> gforth-0.7.9_20250817-amd64   
   >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 382216  /usr/bin/gforth-0.7.9_20250817-amd64   
   >   
   >buzz@mccool:~$ ldd --version   
   >ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.36-9+deb12u10) 2.36   
   >   
   >buzz@mccool:~/bin$ lsb_release -a   
   >No LSB modules are available.   
   >Distributor ID: Debian   
   >Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)   
   >Release:        12   
   >Codename:       bookworm   
   >   
   >Maybe gforth now wants the just released Debian 13 "trixie"?   
      
   Probably.  Bernd Paysan, who builds .debs now uses Debian 13 for   
   testing.  Apparently also for building the .debs.  I'll let him know   
   that this causes problems on older systems.  In the meantime, my   
   recommendation is to build from the tarball (see https://gforth.org/).   
      
   - anton   
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