[MDEV-3379] LP:465327 - 5.1.38 RC x86_64 binaries do not work on RHEL 5 Created: 2009-10-30  Updated: 2012-10-04  Resolved: 2012-10-04

Status: Closed
Project: MariaDB Server
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug Priority: Major
Reporter: Harrison Fisk (Inactive) Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: Launchpad

Attachments: XML File LPexportBug465327.xml    

 Description   

The 5.1.38 RC binaries require a very recent version of glibc. The download page does mention this: "The binaries are built on Ubuntu 9.04 systems, linked against libc 2.9."

However, most production linux systems won't have this new of a glibc. For example, RHEL 5.X uses glibc 2.5.

When you try to run it, you get:

./mysqld: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.8' not found (required by ./mysqld)
./mysqld: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by ./mysqld)



 Comments   
Comment by Kristian Nielsen [ 2009-11-04 ]

Re: 5.1.38 RC x86_64 binaries do not work on RHEL 5
Thanks for notifying us of the problem.

Agree that it is a problem that the binaries depend on a new version of glibc.

The previous release was built on Ubuntu 8.04, we were not sufficiently aware of this issue so the current release was built on Ubuntu 9.04 without checking for libc version issues. We are currently building on Ubuntu 8.04 in Buildbot.

Ubuntu 8.04 has glibc 2.7, so that also will probably cause problems for RHEL 5. I will see how much work it will be to use Centos 5 instead for building the binary tarballs. Also, we expect to have centos 5 rpms soon, which could also be a solution.

Comment by Arjen Lentz (Inactive) [ 2009-11-04 ]

Re: 5.1.38 RC x86_64 binaries do not work on RHEL 5
We're not going to be able to build a binary tarball that works on all distros, unless it'd get linked statically.
The native packages (RPM, DEB) are indeed the nice solution.

Comment by Hakan Küçükyılmaz (Inactive) [ 2009-11-24 ]

Re: 5.1.38 RC x86_64 binaries do not work on RHEL 5
Harrison,

we have RPM packages for CentOS now. Can you please try, if it works for you with RHEL 5:
http://ourdelta.org/centos

Comment by Rasmus Johansson (Inactive) [ 2009-11-26 ]

Launchpad bug id: 465327

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