net/http: compiled binary on Debian 12(bookworm) cannot run on Debian 11(bullseye)

[marjune163]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.20.5 linux/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output

$ go env
GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/home/marjune/.cache/go-build"
GOENV="/home/marjune/.config/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOEXPERIMENT=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOINSECURE=""
GOMODCACHE="/home/marjune/go/pkg/mod"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/marjune/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://goproxy.cn,direct"
GOROOT="/opt/go"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/opt/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GOVCS=""
GOVERSION="go1.20.5"
GCCGO="gccgo"
GOAMD64="v1"
AR="ar"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/dev/null"
GOWORK=""
CGO_CFLAGS="-O2 -g"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g"
CGO_FFLAGS="-O2 -g"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-O2 -g"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build1850243235=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"

What did you do?

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release:        12
Codename:       bookworm

$ uname -a
Linux host7 6.1.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.27-1 (2023-05-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat test.go
package main

import (
        "fmt"
        "net/http"
)

func main() {
        fmt.Println(http.ListenAndServe)
}

$ go version
go version go1.20.5 linux/amd64

$ go build -o test test.go

$ ./test
0x60f7a0

Then copy this built binary test to a Debian 11 system and run:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release:        11
Codename:       bullseye

uname -a
Linux debian 5.10.0-20-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.158-2 (2022-12-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ ./test
./test: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by ./test)
./test: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by ./test)

What did you expect to see?

Run test program without issue and print out the address of http.ListenAndServe.

What did you see instead?

./test: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by ./test)
./test: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by ./test)

[marjune163]

I also tried copy this test binary to CentOS Stream release 8, got the same issue.

[mpx]

This is working as intended. By default Go links with C. Older versions of Debian (and Glibc) typically don't support binaries linked against newer versions.

It should work if you avoid the C dependency with CGO_ENABLED=0 go build.

Go+CGO binaries should always be linked against the oldest platform you intend to support since later versions are typically backwards compatible.