<div dir="ltr">Would something like this work?<br><br>cargo zigbuild --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.2.17 --release</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 12:00\u202fPM <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-request@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-request@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send kwlug-disc mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Quirks with linking and glibc versions (Mikalai Birukou)<br>
<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Mikalai Birukou <<a href="mailto:mb@3nsoft.com" target="_blank">mb@3nsoft.com</a>><br>To: KWLUG discussion <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>><br>Cc: <br>Bcc: <br>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:47:03 +0000<br>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Quirks with linking and glibc versions<br>I am make electron app with lot's of utility. Electron is kinda glue <br>
point at the moment.<br>
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I start to make functionality in Rust. So, it gets glued into Electron <br>
with NAPI, as dynamic libraries.<br>
<br>
I am lazy sys-admin. I am not even cos-playing sys-admin. As a result, <br>
my runner in CI pipeline for builds and tests is Ubuntu Old. I was to <br>
upgrade it a notch, but it is still old.<br>
<br>
This old machine compiles and runs all my code in dynamic libraries.<br>
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Then, necessity pushes me to move napi modules into npm repository. And <br>
being lazy, I build and publish these from local machine. Local machine <br>
is newer with the fresh mint (sub-atomic distro, as we've heard). <br>
Everything run on this machine. But older machine, getting code from <br>
npm, just breaks.<br>
<br>
Break complains about missing glibc (one has to peal off misleading <br>
wrapper error message to see it).<br>
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When I flip everything to assemble binaries for npm in older machine, <br>
all newer and older machine works.<br>
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It sounds like one better build code on older machines. Note that Rust <br>
is same version on all machines.<br>
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ldd --version on machines shows: 2.39 and 2.31.<br>
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Should I look for something ancient to ensure broadest coverage?<br>
What is the wisdom here?<br>
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