Nix-ld leads to GLIBC_2.3x not found

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Any help is much appreciated.

I’ve reproduced this problem in this public repo

Setup

  • On NixOS, ensure your system has the following:
programs.nix-ld = {
  enable = true;
  libraries = with pkgs; [
    stdenv.cc.cc.lib
  ];
};
  • Clone repo, change into directory.
  • If you don’t have direnv, run the command nix develop to activate the development flake.
  • Run ./bin/install.sh
  • Run ./bin/start.sh
  • Observe error:
ImportError: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  • In flake.nix, uncomment this line:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "${pkgs.stdenv.cc.cc.lib}/lib";
  • Run ./bin/start.sh
  • Observe different error:
python: /nix/store/a6rnjp15qgp8a699dlffqj94hzy1nldg-glibc-2.32/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.35' not found (required by /nix/store/y3kdn61k93rq2jx1lj2x72lnsk0l92qh-gcc-13.3.0-lib/lib/libgcc_s.so.1)
python: /nix/store/a6rnjp15qgp8a699dlffqj94hzy1nldg-glibc-2.32/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /nix/store/y3kdn61k93rq2jx1lj2x72lnsk0l92qh-gcc-13.3.0-lib/lib/libgcc_s.so.1)
2

The best thing you can do is to not use LD_LIBRARY_PATH and mix different glibc versions.

3

python from nixpkgs also shouldn’t pick up nix-ld environment normally. Newer versions of nix-ld (2.0) shouldn’t leak their own LD_LIBRARY_PATH to child processes.