Deployment Dependency on GLIBC

[Juergen Bickert]

Since Version "SBCL 1.5.6" when I deploy an executable generated by SBCL on a different plattform like an older Ubuntu Version with an older GLIBC library, I get an error message that the GLIBC library is too old.

Compile OS:
uname -a
  Linux cddr 5.3.0-19-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 18 09:04:39 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
apt list -a libc6
  libc6/eoan,now 2.30-0ubuntu2 amd64

Install OS:
uname -a
  Linux cadr 4.15.0-38-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 10 10:59:38 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
apt list -a libc6
  libc6/bionic,bionic,now 2.27-3ubuntu1 amd64

CL-USER> *features*
(:SLYNK :CL-UNICODE :NAMED-READTABLES :CL-PPCRE
 ALEXANDRIA.1.0.0::SEQUENCE-EMPTYP :QUICKLISP :SB-BSD-SOCKETS-ADDRINFO :ASDF3.3
 :ASDF3.2 :ASDF3.1 :ASDF3 :ASDF2 :ASDF :OS-UNIX :NON-BASE-CHARS-EXIST-P
 :ASDF-UNICODE :X86-64 :64-BIT :64-BIT-REGISTERS :ALIEN-CALLBACKS :ANSI-CL
 :AVX2 :C-STACK-IS-CONTROL-STACK :CALL-SYMBOL :COMMON-LISP
 :COMPACT-INSTANCE-HEADER :COMPARE-AND-SWAP-VOPS :CYCLE-COUNTER :ELF
 :FP-AND-PC-STANDARD-SAVE :GENCGC :IEEE-FLOATING-POINT :IMMOBILE-CODE
 :IMMOBILE-SPACE :INTEGER-EQL-VOP :LARGEFILE :LINKAGE-TABLE :LINUX
 :LITTLE-ENDIAN :OS-PROVIDES-BLKSIZE-T :OS-PROVIDES-DLADDR :OS-PROVIDES-DLOPEN
 :OS-PROVIDES-GETPROTOBY-R :OS-PROVIDES-POLL :OS-PROVIDES-PUTWC
 :OS-PROVIDES-SUSECONDS-T :PACKAGE-LOCAL-NICKNAMES :RELOCATABLE-HEAP :SB-DOC
 :SB-EVAL :SB-FUTEX :SB-LDB :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS :SB-SIMD-PACK :SB-SIMD-PACK-256
 :SB-SOURCE-LOCATIONS :SB-THREAD :SB-UNICODE :SBCL :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-CLOSURES
 :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-FIXED-OBJECTS :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-LISTS
 :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-VECTORS :STACK-GROWS-DOWNWARD-NOT-UPWARD
 :UNDEFINED-FUN-RESTARTS :UNIX :UNWIND-TO-FRAME-AND-CALL-VOP)

[Christophe Rhodes (csr21-cantab)]

 status wontfix
 done

As I said in my message to sbcl-announce for the sbcl-1.5.8 release:
glibc 2.28 fixes a bug in fcntl(), and I do not want to distribute
binaries which force the use of a buggy libc function on systems with a
fixed libc.

If you wish to distribute binaries to systems with older libcs, you will
need an sbcl that itself can run on those systems: probably the most
straightforward way of getting one of those is to compile SBCL on one of
those systems. (A more complicated way is to adapt the memcpy.h file in
sbcl/src/runtime to force fcntl to be an earlier symbol version too, and
build on your build host)

Juergen Bickert <email address hidden> writes:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Since Version "SBCL 1.5.6" when I deploy an executable generated by SBCL
> on a different plattform like an older Ubuntu Version with an older
> GLIBC library, I get an error message that the GLIBC library is too old.
>
> Compile OS:
> uname -a
> Linux cddr 5.3.0-19-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 18 09:04:39 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> apt list -a libc6
> libc6/eoan,now 2.30-0ubuntu2 amd64
>
> Install OS:
> uname -a
> Linux cadr 4.15.0-38-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 10 10:59:38 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> apt list -a libc6
> libc6/bionic,bionic,now 2.27-3ubuntu1 amd64
>
>
> CL-USER> *features*
> (:SLYNK :CL-UNICODE :NAMED-READTABLES :CL-PPCRE
> ALEXANDRIA.1.0.0::SEQUENCE-EMPTYP :QUICKLISP :SB-BSD-SOCKETS-ADDRINFO :ASDF3.3
> :ASDF3.2 :ASDF3.1 :ASDF3 :ASDF2 :ASDF :OS-UNIX :NON-BASE-CHARS-EXIST-P
> :ASDF-UNICODE :X86-64 :64-BIT :64-BIT-REGISTERS :ALIEN-CALLBACKS :ANSI-CL
> :AVX2 :C-STACK-IS-CONTROL-STACK :CALL-SYMBOL :COMMON-LISP
> :COMPACT-INSTANCE-HEADER :COMPARE-AND-SWAP-VOPS :CYCLE-COUNTER :ELF
> :FP-AND-PC-STANDARD-SAVE :GENCGC :IEEE-FLOATING-POINT :IMMOBILE-CODE
> :IMMOBILE-SPACE :INTEGER-EQL-VOP :LARGEFILE :LINKAGE-TABLE :LINUX
> :LITTLE-ENDIAN :OS-PROVIDES-BLKSIZE-T :OS-PROVIDES-DLADDR :OS-PROVIDES-DLOPEN
> :OS-PROVIDES-GETPROTOBY-R :OS-PROVIDES-POLL :OS-PROVIDES-PUTWC
> :OS-PROVIDES-SUSECONDS-T :PACKAGE-LOCAL-NICKNAMES :RELOCATABLE-HEAP :SB-DOC
> :SB-EVAL :SB-FUTEX :SB-LDB :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS :SB-SIMD-PACK :SB-SIMD-PACK-256
> :SB-SOURCE-LOCATIONS :SB-THREAD :SB-UNICODE :SBCL :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-CLOSURES
> :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-FIXED-OBJECTS :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-LISTS
> :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-VECTORS :STACK-GROWS-DOWNWARD-NOT-UPWARD
> :UNDEFINED-FUN-RESTARTS :UNIX :UNWIND-TO-FRAME-AND-CALL-VOP)
>
> ** Affects: sbcl
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New