[gmx-developers] `GLIBC_2.7' not found

[Gaurav Goel]

Is not right that the default option enables static? Do I need to add
the '--enable-all-static' flag to configure?

-Gaurav

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Mark Abraham <mark.abraham at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey at cmm.chem.upenn.edu>
> Date: Saturday, May 22, 2010 0:15
> Subject: Re: [gmx-developers] `GLIBC_2.7' not found
> To: Discussion list for GROMACS development <gmx-developers at gromacs.org>
>
>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Gaurav Goel
>> <gauravgoeluta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I understand that for all subsequent changes I make to
>> gmx_visco.c, I
>> > only need to enter "make gmx_visco" in src/tools.
>> >
>> > The executable 'g_visco' runs fine on my work computer.
>> However, when
>> > I copied the executable 'g_visco' to the Ohio Supercomputer
>> Cluster, I
>> > got this error:
>> > g_visco: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found
>> (required by g_visco)
>> >
>> > Do I need to add any additional flags to my build to make sure this
>> > executable is transferable to different platforms?
>>
>> nope. you need an older linux. glibc is only backward compatible
>> but not forward compatible. if you copy a binary that was built with
>> a newer glibc to a machine with an older glibc, you get this failure.
>> there are ways around this, but they are messy.
>>
>> it is probably easiest to just recompile on the OSC machine.
>
> Or link to a static glibc?
>
> Mark
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