GitHub release is built with too new a version of glibc

[tyilo]

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Describe your issue

cross-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz from https://github.com/cross-rs/cross/releases/tag/v0.2.5 requires version 2.34 of glibc to run.

The official rust docker image only comes with version 2.31 of glibc. Thus I propose to built the official release of the cross binary with a lower version of glibc.

What target(s) are you cross-compiling for?

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Which operating system is the host (e.g computer cross is on) running?

• macOS
• Windows
• Linux / BSD
• other OS (specify in description)

What architecture is the host?

• x86_64 / AMD64
• arm32
• arm64 (including Mac M1)

What container engine is cross using?

• docker
• podman
• other container engine (specify in description)

cross version

cross 0.2.5

Example

$ docker run --rm -it rust:1.71.0
# cd /tmp
# curl -L -O https://github.com/cross-rs/cross/releases/download/v0.2.5/cross-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
# tar xf cross-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz 
# ./cross --version
./cross: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by ./cross)
./cross: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by ./cross)
./cross: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by ./cross)

Additional information / notes

This also occurs when using cargo-binstall to install cross in the image.

[Emilgardis]

the official rust image has multiple debian sources, I'd recommend you use bookworm instead which ships with 2.36

We could maybe consider lowering it in our binary release, but I don't see the benefit of doing so.

[tyilo]

We could maybe consider lowering it in our binary release, but I don't see the benefit of doing so.

The benefit would be that it would work with the default version of the official rust docker image.

[haarts]

Is there a way to work around this issue till a more permanent solution has been implemented?