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["Yann Dirson" <address@hidden>]

Joris wrote:
> I am sorry to bother you again, but on my RedHat 9.0 system, I could
> neither compile asymptote from the source code (even when configuring
> with the system gc), nor execute the binary version (kernel too old).
> By the way, unpacking the binary version temporarily erased
> my symbolically linked /usr/local (lesson: never mess around and
> try to invent your own non-standard installation procedures).

Hm, that sounds quite strange.  I have just tested their static binary on
a plain RH9 without update, running kernel 2.4.20-8smp, and it just works,
as shown below.  Note that I did not unpack their tarball in /, I just
created a symlink from /usr/local/share/asymptote to the unpacked data.

Sample session showing EPS text on stdout:

$ ASYMPTOTE_PSVIEWER=cat ./usr/local/bin/asy
Welcome to Asymptote version 0.89 (to view the manual, type help)
> draw(unitsquare);
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
[...]
showpage
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