[Nix-dev] "/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found" trying to install on RHEL 6.5

[Alexander Vorobiev]

My understanding is rpms for Nix are only available for Fedora and they
wouldn't work with RHEL which is very conservative (no c++11 compiler,
etc). There is new RHEL 7 released a few months ago but most enterprise
users are still on 6.x (or older) with no plans to upgrade. Hence my
interest in Nix.

I am building gcc-5.1; when it is done, I will try building Nix. As a side
note, wouldn't it be better if the binary distribution were self-sufficient
(=statically linked) and didn't depend on the host system? I am sure I am
not the first user of RHEL who got burned by similar problems...

Thanks,
Alex


On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com> wrote:

> This basically means that Nix expects a different version of libstdc++.
> You can use `objdump` or `readelf` on your library to find out which
> version you have.
>
> Your options are upgrading (or downgrading which is less likely) gcc
> (which provides this library) or building Nix yourself using gcc that you
> have, so that it gets linked against the version you have.
> Also, if Nix is available in the form of rpm in Red Hat's repository it
> would be better to install it from there as rpm will take care of all the
> dependencies.
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 23:45 Alex Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to install Nix on RHEL 6.5 in a single user mode. The
>> installation fails when nix-store can't load libstdc++ (see below). Is
>> there any way to fix the problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> $ bash <(curl https://nixos.org/nix/install)
>> <...>
>> initialising Nix database...
>> /nix/store/l598bgyrflylmfxr7c889jcs5amflrsp-nix-1.9/bin/nix-store:
>> /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required
>> by /nix/store/l598bgyrflylmfxr7c889jcs5amflrsp-nix-1.9/bin/nix-store)
>> <...>
>> nix-binary-tarball-unpack/nix-1.9-x86_64-linux/install: failed to
>> initialize the Nix database
>>
>>
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> --
> Кирилл Елагин
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