LP:1049621 - GLIBC_2.14 buildbot change for mariadb-5.3.8-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Hello and thank you for mariadb,

I noticed mariadb-5.3.8-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz looks to have been built with different libs than mariadb-5.3.7-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz and previous 5.3.X bintars for x86_64.

In particular when executing on Red Hat EL 5.8 (2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 with (glibc 2.5 (-81)) 5.3.8 now errors with:

/bin/mysql_upgrade: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by bin/mysql_upgrade)

and

/bin/mysqld: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-2.0.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

on RHEL6 (less "ancient") it also errors with

bin/mysql_upgrade: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by bin/mysql_upgrade)

glibc on RHEL6.2 is 2.12(-1.47)

I am wondering if there is a x86_64 bintar file available that will run with older versions of glibc. As I could not find a mention of this change I thought it likely to be a bug.

Thank you

Ref:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518 for the GLIBC_2.14 symbol version change