Re: [Denemo-devel] Static Linking (was Re: tablature status (August 2012))

[Richard Shann]

I have done a bit of research on this topic and have come up with these

http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/linux_binary_compatibility.html

http://www.redhat.com/archives/psyche-list/2003-June/msg00095.html

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9705/can-new-glibc-versions-be-used-with-an-old-kernel

Another interesting link
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6941332/anticipate-kernel-too-old-errors-between-2-6-16-and-2-6-26-kernel-versions
which has this snippet:
One way you can determine the minimum kernel version for a given ELF
file is to run file on it, like so:

$ echo 'int main(){}' > test.c
$ gcc -o test test.c
$ file test
test: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked 
(uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.38, not stripped

The important part here is the "for GNU/Linux 2.6.38", which indicates
the minimum kernel version.

Richard



On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 09:25 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> I should explain better:
> On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 23:35 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > Unfortunately I am not getting a segfault. I do know what to do now.
> > It 
> > segfaults after I added the libglib libraries. 
> what I am thinking is that it is not because the libglib libraries are
> the wrong ones, but that they allow the program to get as far as
> actually starting, whereupon it tries a glibc call (likely the startup
> before main() ) and that segfaults. You could find out where it
> segfaults to confirm this, my guess is it is before it gets to main().
> (use gdb with b main). If it was adding the libglib libraries that was
> bad it would get past main and try to call gtk_init() and then crash.
> 
> Hence my reasoning that trying to run with a miss-matched pair of
> kernel-glibc is probably a dead end. 
> 
> So the thing to try is putting in the libglib stuff and running on some
> other modern distro. Possibly taking out glibc as it is available in the
> distro, (and the glibc in the distro will work with the kernel in that
> distro).
> 
> Richard
> 
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