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🚗 Versions of Ruby that can be installed and run from anywhere on the filesystem.
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portable-ruby does not run on system with older version of glibc #98

Closed runlevel5 closed 4 years ago

runlevel5 commented 4 years ago

I was poking into the bottled portable-ruby abit and found that on some distro I get error with missing libcrypt.so.1 or some other glibc-related errors. I have a close look into the portable-ruby formula and I could not see any reference to static linking to glibc.

I am wondering how the project could maintain cross-distro compatability, especially on distro that does not ship with glibc, saying for example they go with musl libc.

On related topic, I learn that static linking to glibc is not so straight-forward. Therefore I've attempted to compile a binary with static linking to musl libc instead of glibc. I ran into an issue.

MikeMcQuaid commented 4 years ago

The portable Ruby for Linux does not support all distros. It's build on Debian Wheezy for compatibility.