[Nix-dev] glibc issues from a proprietary binary distributed as an RPM

[Bjørn Forsman]

On 25 May 2017 at 20:19, Peter Jones <mlists at pmade.com> wrote:
> I find myself in the (sickening) position of needing to use a
> closed-source tool on NixOS.  I have an overlay package that almost
> works.  After using patchelf, most of the binaries seem to work.  But
> one of them is being a pain:
>
>     JLinkGDBServer: relocation error: JLinkGDBServer: symbol , version
>     GLIBC_2.2.5 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
>
> The collective wisdom of the web suggests this might have something to
> do with the binary using symbols from libc that are not in my version of
> glibc.  As far as I can tell the company that makes this just has an RPM
> with no system requirements so I can't tell which glibc I should be
> using.  Also, strace wasn't much help here either.
>
> I would love some help figuring this out.  The derivation that I'm
> working on can be found here:
>
>     https://github.com/pjones/nixpkgs-jlink

I know it's not what you asked, but as a workaround perhaps you can
use openocd instead?

Side note: I have a similar problem with Altera Quartus toolsuite (for
FPGAs). I managed to get it working in NixOS 16.09, but in 17.03 there
is some incompatibility with glibc that I cannot figure out.

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman